If you want to grow carrots, you don't probably want a lot of rocks in your soil. So last night I decided I'd loosen up the garden dirt in a nice row for my carrots. I got the big shovel and started turning up the dirt. I even got the sieve to take out EVERYTHING crunchy and have nice, smooth soil.
This went smoothly for about two feet. Then *clunk!* there was a rock my shovel couldn't move. *Clunk!* There was another one. *Clunk, clunk, clunk!* The rest of the row was full of rocks.
Have no fear, I will succeed! I told myself.
So I got down into the dirt with my little trowel and started excavating. It was really weird, and I'm not sure what purpose it held, but the obstacle my shovel had found was a whole row of large (maybe 1/2 a cubic foot-- basketball sized) rocks wrapped in black plastic. I pulled out three of them, and on the bottom of one was a giant (well, not tiny) spider. Weird! I didn't know spiders could live under rocks two feet under the ground. Unfortunately... they can.
So that's my not-so-interesting story. Of all the places I decide to soften the soil for carrots, it's the place with the buried rock patch.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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How funny! Now THAT is random!!! So what ever happened with China?
You have me intrigued! I'm trying to figure out why someone would wrap up rocks and bury them? I'll come back and check your comments later, maybe someone has more no-how than me and can give an explanation? hope you get some good carrots!
i bet they're fossilized watermelons that were stolen from a museum in england!
Haha...Should have said "know-how." Yikes...I am completely sleep deprived this week.
Julie: Sometimes I lie just to get attention. We didn't actually plan on going to China... well, we did. And we bought tickets. We just didn't get any visas. :(
Julia: My best guess, after finding that there wasn't a dead body wrapped in the plastic, is that maybe someone was covering a well? I think after the frost kills my garden this fall, I might do some more excavating. :)
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