More on the Garden Relocation

Turns out that the garden relocation was unnecessary. The addition will be further to the north than I thought. I spent several hours digging what was either chunks of bedrock or the foundation of an ancient lost city from the ground, together with laboriously sifting out the smaller rocks and pebbles from the soil of the new garden space.

Sheesh, it's no wonder people fled northern New England as soon as the Ohio Valley opened for settlers. Throw in the very short growing season and it's a wonder any farmers lived up here at all.

The carefully tended and double-dug former garden is now just a hole in the ground, but I think I should go about refilling it with purchased topsoil, compost, and the like, and double the size of my vegetable garden. I'll also need to collect new stones from the river to use as my garden border.