I got notice that 2 of my gooseberrys have been shipped, one of them has not been shipped yet. I know they will be here soon so today I got my power pick out and decided to start getting a space ready for them. For those of you who do not know what a Power Pick is, it happens to be my very old 8HP Roper Front Tine Tiller. Roper has been out of business for about 20 years now, I do not know how old the tiller is, it was used when I got it. The rope return on the starter broke so the last owner just put on an old spool with a slot for the knotted rope to fit into. You hand wind the rope around and pull, if it does not start, [ which it never does 1st pull ] then you start wrapping the rope around again. The reason I call it a Power Pick is that I use it like a pick for digging holes and getting out rocks. It bounces and bucks but shes a digger. Turns out I am Hell on equipment,
I had put out 4 sticks to mark the width and length of the bed that I wanted to till up. It was sod so it was fairly hard to till anyway. I started by the garden end of the bed between the 2 sticks and started to till toward the stick at the other end. When I got to the other end I did not see the 2nd stick, I thought , Oh Well, it must have gotten kicked over or something. I tilled the new bed several times over until it was very good, I also stopped the tiller in the 3 spots that I wanted to dig the planting holes and got them pretty deep. This afternoon I as ready to really dig the planting hole for the gooseberrys. I stepped off the distence between the new bed and the Black Berrys, it was not right. Then I looked down the bed and saw the 2nd stick that I had put in. I had tilled out side of the place for the new bed, sort of at an angle to the far post. I was 4 feet off. What a DUMMY,,,,,,,,,,,lol. I had a good laugh, dug the 2 holes that I needed on the end that started in the right place, [ I had planned on planting the 1st 2 on the other end of the bed ] Oh Well, lol. Tommorrow I will try and get the old Power Pick started again and redo the job correctly. There is never enough time to do the job right the 1st time, but there is ALWAYS enough time to redo it. I tell this on myself because we are trying to learn from other members mistakes, and I certainally made a Big one today.
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