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And now onto the story…

I finally got the row of beans cleaned up on one side of the garden, the cows in the show barn were very happy that they got their share of the vines and overgrown beans.

But I didn’t have much time to stand around congratulating myself on a job well done, because just on the other side of the garden there are many jobs that still need my attention before we really get too deep into the fall season. The raspberry  and boysenberry vines need to be trimmed, the old vines removed and the new one re-strung on the trellis.

Another task that has been waiting for several weeks is the strawberry patch, or what was the strawberry patch. I had been tilling up the plot a little at a time between being out in the woods and in the barns. Seems like I would just get the tiller running and begin to make another pass along the section when I would be needed to assist with the tractor, or the Gator, or the cows. Normally, I would not leave the tiller sitting in dirt in the middle of the garden, but I really had been expecting to finish the job in a couple of days.

The last day I ran the tiller, dust was still churned up as I ran it. I had to put a blue bucket over the motor when rain started to be an issue, but I still expected that I could finish the job with damp soil instead of dry powder. Now the ground is so saturated, I’m not sure if I can get it unstuck from the mud.

Maybe I’ll just turn my back for a couple more days and think about how nice the bean row cleaned up.