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[Kaleva]

As I work on my 1800+ sq. ft. vegetable garden and two 35' rows for raspberries and plotting out where to put 10 fruit trees, I am continually reminded on how blessed I am to deal with heavy clay soil, which turns into a sticky muck when wet and is as hard as cement when dry, and rocks. Lots of rocks. All sizes and shapes. Almost every time, or so it seems, I push a shovel into the ground, I hit a rock.

For awhile, I wondered what to do with my growing collection of rock and then I came up with an idea. I decided to line the ditch, which runs east to west, on the south side of the property with the rock starting at the west end of the ditch. After many trips with the wheelbarrow and sometimes with a 5 gallon bucket, I have the area around the culvert at the west end of the ditch lined with rock up to the top of the bank. As I continue to work on the garden and harvest more rock, I'll just keep adding it to the ditch working my way eastward.

Being 59 years old, I probably won't live long enough or remain in decent enough shape to completely line the entire ditch with rock but what I have done so far looks pretty good and my wife is really pleased with it.