my feet and hands are dirt. i have been wearing at least a little earth for the past few days.
we have constructed and planted most of the garden.
it is large, yet, it grows smaller as we make our discernments upon it..

the spinach will be planted staggered-ly, the first row planted, and then the next row 10 days after, and the next row 10 days after that... this way, after the forty or fifty days that it takes for the first row yields, we will get them, replant there, and then 10 days later, the second will be up, and so on. local perpetua-greens.

i have been doing a lot of digging in reaction to the number of rain water issues that have arisen. first, there is a spot on the northwest corner of the plot where we had noticed that water pools up, and would flood out any seeds that we wished to plant. i dug east from the spot, across the plot. somewhere along the way, my easternly trench dug southeast a bit, but luckily so.. since it turns out that this was more downhill than the straight east trench would have been.
after we had planted the first two rows (collards, turnips), it began a tremendous rain. the yard is a semidescent slant. rain water that gathers on the side of the house comes rushing down into the back yard, and is led by gravity towards the garden. the plot is a long rectangle, sloping down into the longer backyard.. we had begun to dig a trench along the side of the plot, to divert the water from running across it, and washing out the seeds. by the time the rain got heavy, is was too late, where we had begun digging flooded over, and two streams cut out across the rows of seed.