Things went splashingly well! We had one volunteer, Peggy that came and boy, did she work! She was a great help to us and was very friendly. Thanks Peggy! On this day we pulled weeds, moved soil to areas that had to be filled in versus just throwing it away, picked up debris, moved leftover pieces of concrete, and laid a soft tarp-like material in areas where the raised beds will be to decrease the regrowth of weeds. The day was quite lovely and took place after long bouts of rainfall in Baltimore so as you will see from the pictures below, we were almost ankle deep in mud! The soil is very clay-like and it was very easy to get bogged down in it.
Peggy hard at work. She was amazing, because she could hold a conversation and work hard at the same time! :-)
Unstoppable Shari'. She is our Energizer Bunny!
The mud I wrote about.
Mud was not going to stop us!
Covering to keep weeds out. We will probably adopt another way of keeping down weeds before the plants are planted. In addition, the mud has hardened to the point where we doubt anything will grow before Construction Day.
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