I just came in from discing a one acre field where we are going sow clover in the hopes of keeping deer over there and not in our ornimental gardens... Gonna let it dry a little and disc it once more this afternoon...

One more trip to Tony Weakleys chicken farm for manure and the veggie garden will be ready for James, the tiller-man... He has a 6 foot tiller on the back of his Ford tractor and tills up everyone's gardens in the spring... $35... That's cheap considerin' that his tiller is probably about a $3000 machine...

This is the P-Vine's 2nd Saturday at the Page Coop Garden Center... Hope she doesn't bring home anymore work for the poor hillbilly... Last week she met this guy and sold him some cryptomeria yoshinas... He's a city boy and don't know about shovels so she hired me out to do the planting... Okay, I'll make some beer money but...

We also potted up 15 boxwood festigiata yesterday that we bought when we were in NC... They were field grown and came home in in my trailer in plastic trash bags... 30" plants and some of the root balls took up most of a 5 gallon pot... Took 6 down to the coop this morning... Half the camellias have been sold... Better than half of the hellebore Lenten Roses have been sold... Our biggie shipment from Raliegh will be here Monday...

Yeah, I guess it is spring, ain't it...

B~