Beginner Gardening: Gardening is a dainty activity?, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
That back corner of my yard had a rather large dirt pile. Extra dirt from several different projects had been dumped there years ago and I just covered it up with daylilies and ornamental grass. A couple of years ago we (Ric and I) started to move the pile. In that pic a good bit of it had already been removed and there was a good bit more to go. Talk about dainty gardening, we moved that whole pile by hand and then Ric roto-tilled it and I screened the top foot or more of it. Then there were several carts of compost put in. There had been a stoned parking area there before the dirt had started to pile up so it took quite a bit of screening. The original dirt pile extended just beyond where those Hollies had been planted. The first year we did enough around the back edges to get the Hollies in and then the second year the rest of the dirt went and the bed was prepared.