Planting potatos and onions using the broad fork

The garden soil has finally dried out enough to prepare some beds for the potatoes and onions due to some particularly hot early spring weather. While digging with the six tine broad, I was really struck by the fact that I never really got to that exhausted state we have all encountered when doing the really hard work of preparing the garden for planting.

Working at a comfortable pace we prepared two beds 30 inches wide by 26 feet long in about an hour and a half. The spacing between the beds in this section of the garden was made intentionally wide this year to allow for the potato vines to spread out into the path while giving our young children enough room to play comfortably without damaging the plants; so much,. You know dump trucks - excavators?

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