Day 6

Morning: Turning and Trenching

In the morning we started in the herb garden where I turned a patch of soil and picked out what seemed to be an endless amount of 'twitch' grass roots. While I did this Nigel worked dug a trench at the end of a patch so as to stop the grass from growing into it. Lisa and Brenda were also with us; Lisa was laying down straw between strawberry rows, while Brenda worked beside me weeding between a bunch of assorted herbs.(her hands got stung by stinging nettle) :(.
After we finished there we made our way to the tree nursery where I finished up the straw and newspaper mulching we started on Friday. While I did that Lisa and Nigel worked on turning up a patch of dirt for later use and Brenda worked on weeding between some of the bigger trees and bushes near the fence. By the time Nigel and Lisa were done,I was still working so they joined in and eventually Brenda did as well

Afternoon: Helping Shanta

After lunch break we made our way to the wood chip piles and loaded two carts of wood chips to bring to Shanta's garden. Lisa, Nigel, Brenda, Shanta and I ALL worked on laying down cardboard and shoveling wood chips on top of it. Eventually Shanta went out for dinner and Brenda went to work on a small garden somewhere close and Lisa, Nigel and I finished shoveling wood chips onto the cardboard. It was quite a hot day so at one point Brenda invited us to take a 5 minute drink break in Green Haven.