cover crop and good neighbor

we did a cover crop this year in our vegetable growing beds. our local garden place has a wide variety of cover crops (and seeds galore and tools and books and much more. we like it). we chose a soil building mix of legumes: fava beans, biomaster peas, yellow peas, and sugar snap peas. an edible crop that fixes nitrogen and send roots deep.

april 13

april 21
barely visible behind the closest
  row of cover crop is the next
bed with teeny broccoli and cauliflower starts

fava bean flowers

pea flowers 

we decided to remove the fence around the little garden that came with the place. it was built in a very shaded location, so we will move the nice redwood raised beds out into the sunlight. i took off the wire fencing. seventeen posts. at least twenty five fence staples in each. then i discovered that all seventeen were set in two feet of concrete. i dug down halfway around four gobs of concrete on four posts and exhausted myself breaking the concrete off two. i was resigned to renting a jackhammer to salvage the posts.

we mentioned the post problem to a neighbor a week or so ago. this morning he drove over in his nice mid size kubota tractor and volunteered to see if it would pull up the posts. short answer…no. he did get the two posts i had dug around up out of the ground, still in their large   concrete boots.

it was a very nice gesture. we had a laugh about overdone concrete.