[GH85Carrera]

Morning all.

I survived my three day weekend despite my Master Gardner wife. We now have yet another large chunk of the front yard as an area I will not have to mow. It is not yet a garden, there are several steps left before plants go in. I plugged two of the spray heads for the lawn sprinkler system and I have to move two more. Then I get to find the pipe that goes under the sidewalk into the other garden area and get that connected to the new garden area. Then we will get started on building the retaining wall, border wall to hold in the garden and hopefully keep the grass out. Then we get to go get a ton (literally) of "Rich Mix" soil. It is compost that is a very good planting soil.

Our yard is pure gumbo clay. It is no exaggeration to say once the plant parts are removed it would be perfect for making bricks or hand throwing a pot on a potters wheel. When digging in the yard you shovel up a scoop and then you use another shovel to scrape the first shovel with. Often you need a hand trowel to scrape the second shovel with. Of course if it is not watered for a while it pretty much hardens into brick form and takes a pickax to break up enough to get a shovel into it.