Yeah, raised beds seems like the way to go!!! Having it professionally removed would risk the soil health as well as cost a whole heck of a lot!! Stay well!
At one point the entire lot was a huge farm.. So they may have cleared the 'field' but that's all being used as a new development. The cleared patch on our property must have been the established 'backyard garden'. My husband found huge piles of those rocks in the cellar of the barn. I guess they are everywhere secretly lurking underground!!
We took them to the recycling center, because ours were parts of a house foundation, they were cement. If they had been only rocks, I would have used them to make raised beds 😉
I thought you were going to get a hernia trying to get that one out of the hole. Your garden helper is cute and she doesn't mind getting a little dirty doing the job. Have a great day. Best wishes Bob.
LOL!! I had no idea it was going to be that heavy, I thought I was going to do a face plant in the dirt!! LOL!! Yeah, my little side-kick has taken to dirt like a duck to water!! Thanks for stopping by and stay well!!
Those big rocks are definitely a good reason to rethink your plans! So first of all, you have to understand that with frost heaving and melting throughout the winter you will always have NEW different size rocks come to the surface year-after-year. So probably the last owners had dug out large ones like that before when they established the garden, and here you are years later, encountering "boulders" trying to re-establish the garden. Second thing is that the ones you dug out are big, but you were able to move them. Is your husband willing to help excavate the bigger ones? It just seems a shame to have all that deliciously dark supple topsoil and then you have to go out and pay for soil to make raised beds. Certainly, you will encounter TRUE boulders that not even an elephant would move! In that case, who says you have to have a garden in nice straight rows within a square? Maybe you can make them into stepping stones. I picture pretty flowers or lettuces encircling each rock (which BTW absorb heat and create microclimates where you might be able to grow things early and late to extend your short season). Just some thoughts to consider...
Deborah Christmas you and I think alike that soil makes me want to be a plant lol. I think she can work that space with plants planted further apart but not in a neat row let the boulders kind of determine things to a point as raised beds come with a cost that I know all too well. didn't think about the heat thing you're right on that one.
I love how you make everything seem so 'doable'!! I feel so much better, even though facing rocks year-after-year isn't ideal. I'm ready to look at the land with a new lens. I'll keep you informed on how it goes. Stay well my friend!! Blessings.
you're smarter than me you laid out templates for your raised beds, an idea for that rocky bed. since that soil is so beautiful maybe try pants in that area that get large and vine. so like pumpkin squash melons, my thinking is you plant them though the space and when they are little they don't need to be planted deep and the roots will grow around the boulders. soil like that probably won't need much fertilizing, and plenty of room for the vines, this is if you like those kinds of crops to begin with, just a friendly suggestion though. or berries perhaps blackberries, blueberries, raspberries may be more suited and easier to work around the boulders. if you decide against that and do raised beds that will work too. that kid will be a tough one, I was like that falling busting my behind and my head once (I have the missing eyebrow hair to prove it lol), just had to be in everything totally fearless lol.
You called it, she IS into everything!! Nothing happens here without her being in the middle of it!! It's good to know she'll grow up tough!! I love that idea and will definitely do that!!
Aww, thank you, I'm surprised you can even see her under all that dirt!! LOL!! The soil looks so inviting and the rocks just spoils it a little. I'm hopeful that I can work around them.. Thanks for watching, stay well!!
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We use raised beds for a similar reason. Godspeed!
Yeah, raised beds seems like the way to go!!! Having it professionally removed would risk the soil health as well as cost a whole heck of a lot!! Stay well!
Those rocks are huge !! Has anyone had a garden there before ?
At one point the entire lot was a huge farm.. So they may have cleared the 'field' but that's all being used as a new development. The cleared patch on our property must have been the established 'backyard garden'. My husband found huge piles of those rocks in the cellar of the barn. I guess they are everywhere secretly lurking underground!!
Those were huge! I encountered the same thing when I ripped out the cement from the front of my home 😊
Yeah, they are really huge and heavy!! What did you do to the left over rocks?
We took them to the recycling center, because ours were parts of a house foundation, they were cement. If they had been only rocks, I would have used them to make raised beds 😉
I thought you were going to get a hernia trying to get that one out of the hole. Your garden helper is cute and she doesn't mind getting a little dirty doing the job. Have a great day. Best wishes Bob.
LOL!! I had no idea it was going to be that heavy, I thought I was going to do a face plant in the dirt!! LOL!! Yeah, my little side-kick has taken to dirt like a duck to water!! Thanks for stopping by and stay well!!
Those big rocks are definitely a good reason to rethink your plans! So first of all, you have to understand that with frost heaving and melting throughout the winter you will always have NEW different size rocks come to the surface year-after-year. So probably the last owners had dug out large ones like that before when they established the garden, and here you are years later, encountering "boulders" trying to re-establish the garden. Second thing is that the ones you dug out are big, but you were able to move them. Is your husband willing to help excavate the bigger ones? It just seems a shame to have all that deliciously dark supple topsoil and then you have to go out and pay for soil to make raised beds. Certainly, you will encounter TRUE boulders that not even an elephant would move! In that case, who says you have to have a garden in nice straight rows within a square? Maybe you can make them into stepping stones. I picture pretty flowers or lettuces encircling each rock (which BTW absorb heat and create microclimates where you might be able to grow things early and late to extend your short season). Just some thoughts to consider...
Deborah Christmas you and I think alike that soil makes me want to be a plant lol. I think she can work that space with plants planted further apart but not in a neat row let the boulders kind of determine things to a point as raised beds come with a cost that I know all too well. didn't think about the heat thing you're right on that one.
I love how you make everything seem so 'doable'!! I feel so much better, even though facing rocks year-after-year isn't ideal. I'm ready to look at the land with a new lens. I'll keep you informed on how it goes. Stay well my friend!! Blessings.
you're smarter than me you laid out templates for your raised beds, an idea for that rocky bed. since that soil is so beautiful maybe try pants in that area that get large and vine. so like pumpkin squash melons, my thinking is you plant them though the space and when they are little they don't need to be planted deep and the roots will grow around the boulders. soil like that probably won't need much fertilizing, and plenty of room for the vines, this is if you like those kinds of crops to begin with, just a friendly suggestion though. or berries perhaps blackberries, blueberries, raspberries may be more suited and easier to work around the boulders. if you decide against that and do raised beds that will work too. that kid will be a tough one, I was like that falling busting my behind and my head once (I have the missing eyebrow hair to prove it lol), just had to be in everything totally fearless lol.
You called it, she IS into everything!! Nothing happens here without her being in the middle of it!! It's good to know she'll grow up tough!! I love that idea and will definitely do that!!
I think a meteor crashed there! lol! We have them too. I feel your pain!
LOL!! I thought that too!! I'm afraid to hire an excavator because it would ruin that beautiful topsoil!!
Your soil is amazing but such a shame about the rocks and your little girl is a real cutie.
Aww, thank you, I'm surprised you can even see her under all that dirt!! LOL!! The soil looks so inviting and the rocks just spoils it a little. I'm hopeful that I can work around them.. Thanks for watching, stay well!!