Roots of Evil

Not only do I have to mess with hard clay earth, but I have dig every single remaining Creeping Juniper roots and Siberian Elm saplings out. Did I mention how hard they are to get out, and back breaking of course. Ughhh!!

Gardening

Well I haven't been keeping track of my aquariums because I was very busy tilling a plot of land in my backyard. I plan on splitting the plot in half; half for food-type plants and the other half for plants that attract butterflies and bees. This plot hasn't been touched for at least 16 years, and only has ugly Creeping Junipers, weeds and very evil Siberian Elm saplings in the ground. So not only are there a bunch of pain in the ass plants to remove but the ground is rock hard! Thank you Colorado, for having rock hard clay soil /sarcasm.

Anyways, I began watering the area for 15 minutes a day for a few days to help soften up the ground. I pulled up the Creeping Junipers and the weed cloth. Then to soften and crumble the ground I used a mattock with a three-prong and axe head. The ground was okay to work with, but the painful frustrating part was trying to remove the roots of the Creeping Junipers and the Siberian Elm saplings, of which both kinds of plants were extremely established. Getting them out completely was impossible, so I dug as deep as possible and yanked out what I could. I am contemplating on using some Round-Up and squirting it on the roots so hopefully they die and I don't have to worry about these evil plants sending up new shoots in the next Spring.

 

It is such hard work to get to these evil roots. I hope in the end all my back-breaking work will pay off, in future I will probably have some back problems because of this. I am still not done with getting rid of all these roots, there are just so many. Sometimes it is very frustrating and I kinda wished to do a raised garden bed, but my parents don't want me to since they think I'll lose interest after a season.