As well it should be! :)

One Saturday in mid-March, Randy rented a gasoline-powered sod cutter. A finer tool I have never seen! In only 45 minutes (and $48 of our cash), it cut the sod off of 600 square feet of lawn, leaving only dark dirt and confused worms. It then took another two hours to actually remove the neat rows of sod. With them we created "the mountain," which is the girls' new favorite play area.

The duck are currently making "deposits" onto straw covering the new area. I'm planning to keep them there through the middle or end of this month, actually rotating through a few different locations.

So the end result is that this year's garden will be 30ft by 35ft, a total of 1050 square feet - compared to my 866 square-foot house. I love it!

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Posted by Diane

Good gardens always seem to have a way of expanding, don't they? ;-) Man, I wish we'd done the sod cutter thing before putting in the garden here! We have that nasty crabgrass/quackgrass/pain-in-the-butt grass that doesn't go away. I'm actually going to lay down landscape fabric/weed barrier cloth this year so I don't have to fight the weeds as much. Ick.

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