Dig Dig! Hori Hori!

Dug up another chunk of backyard today. Spent all afternoon in the garden, loosening the soil, digging up weeds, digging up and throwing out all of the Myrtle Spurge that our landlord had in the backyard. Myrtle Spurge, I also discovered, is a class A noxious weed, sort of the Heroin of landscaping.

Also returned to Urban Roots and bought some more garden tools. Bought a pair of garden gloves, a hand fork, a trowel and a Hori Hori (a cool japanese gradening hand tool, hori hori means "dig dig" in japanese. Apparently these tools are used for everything: digging, cutting, chopping. It definitely useful for digging up dandelions, spurge, bindweed, and mallow.)

I measured the space we have set aside for gardening in the backyard. Its about 12.5 x 6 or so feet. So about 75 square feet.

I also planted more seeds today: black-seeded simpson and a Mesclun seed mix in the triangle in between the spinach and the redina. And then later: Bright Lights Swiss Chard in a 2' by 1' square behind the ant compound. (Yes, there is a huge ant colony under a big 2' by 2' rock. Wonder how that's going to work out??)

Also after I dug up the backyard, I started seeing more birds around, I have never seen birds in our backyard before today. I saw a sparrow sitting on the fence and then later a robin (who was obviously looking for some worms I may have unearthed.)

I was so happy today, it was such a joy working in the dirt, I'd forgotten how much this means to me.