Several weekends ago, Mike and Linda showed up with their tractor and rotatiller.  I had been making noises about trying to recover a small sheep pasture for extra garden space and since we were borrowing the John Deere from Mike and Linda to mount Schillings cement mixer, Mike brought along the tiller and spent an hour or so helping us get the ground messed up (and to remove our treasure of rocks!.  Tonight friend Jen Kerslake (of the whimsical garden fame of a former post) let me dig up a few of her spreading strawberry plants and those will be the first to hit the new garden area.

Here are photos of the JD and roto…