Northeast Gardening: Toughest challenge for gardeners in the NE?, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
LOL Dave - "rock thumb" :) I remember experiencing the same thing every year in my vegetable garden. Just when we thought we got rid of them, every winter the soil would heave them up from even deeper in the soil and there would be more to contend with! Then every hole I'd dig to make room for new perennials, I'd end up with another stockpile of rocks. Finally got smart and started building raised beds with them. This is a picture of one area that I used to call my "Pneumonia Garden". I worked so hard that year getting these rocks out of the ground with a crow bar and shovel, then having to "roll" them into place - I wore myself out and ended up with pneumonia!

This picture is a little fuzzy because it was scanned.