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Mr. Stump - On Fire and General Panic

I expect to be planting in the garden tomorrow (onions, asparagus, potatoes) and getting our cucumber trellises out.  Yes, there will be lots of updates next week.

With all that action planned for tomorrow I thought last night might be a good time to take care of Mr. Stump.

Remember Mr. Stump?



I marched back there, lighter in tow and tried to set him on fire.  It didn't work well.  Hubby then added lighter fluid.  Better. 

We have fire.



 


And then the fire died out, after like 3 minutes.  Hubby then started digging.  He was all, "I got this."


I watched my husband dig around the stump, use an ax on the stump, use a sledgehammer on the stump.  I watched him for roughly 20 minutes.  While he was doing that, I was clearing out some grass he threw in the garden ::gasp:: and started to notice something.

Our soil is supposed to be clay-y.  Ok, not supposed to be, it is.  But it wasn't until hubby started digging in it, and leaving chunks of grass in the garden until I realized just how  clay-y.

I'm pretty confident I could mold this soil, take it to a kiln, and have a freakin' ceramic pot.  

I have officially entered panic mode.  What if nothing grows???  We have a nice layer of sheep and peat tilled in, but still.  What if nothing grows???

I'm off to find a corner and curl into a fetal position, but before I do that - after an hour of hard work, hubby got the stump out.  He held it triumphantly over his head.  I didn't have my phone, so no picture and I really didn't have the heart to make him pose.

Panic.

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  1. Jessica McMullenMarch 30, 2013 at 8:00 AM

    My hubby says Revive (a soil amendment sold at Home depot) is specifically for amending clay soil. Don't panic. I am sure your grandfather will make things grow in your garden.

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    1. Adrienne JonesMarch 31, 2013 at 2:48 PM

      I put revive on the whole lawn last fall. Probably do another round soon for the yard. Cary put some soil activator on the garden so here is to hoping. Grandpa came up today and looked at the garden. He says we might not get much this year, put the soil will get better as we continue to plant. So I guess all we can do is wait and see. :-)

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