jon_chaisson | Sunday gardening

Today's exercise was spending a few hours at our local community garden. We're tasked with spending at least a few hours a year tidying up the various parts of the garden itself -- weeding, tossing out trash, turning over the compost pile, and whatnot -- so today A and I spent a good two hours getting stuck in. The border fence and wall near our plot was vastly overgrown with weeds and crabgrass so we pulled it all out and it looks SO much better now. I somehow managed to uncover two very large snails while I was at it, and they proceeded to start climbing up the wall for safety. [Sorry we hurt your field, mister!]

There was also a triangle-shaped spot between us and the woodchip pile that was quite weedy as well (there used to be a platform and a greenhouse there but had been torn down a year or so ago and it was all overgrown). I think the organizers were quite impressed by how much we managed to get done, considering A has a very green thumb and I've picked up quite a bit from all those episodes of Gardener's World that we'd been watching over the past few years. We're both a bit sore and dirty but it was really fun work and I'm looking forward to doing it again at some point!

So now it's time for me to finish washing the bedsheets and get a few blogs ready for the next few days...