Aches & Pains, Garden Gains

Monday, April 23, 2007

My body aches from all the gardening I did over the weekend. Among other tasks, I:

• Dug up Black-Eyed Susans and moved them to a sunnier spot;
• Tamed the not-so-obedient Obedient Plant;
• Hauled two wheelbarrows full of wood chips and shoveled them onto the pathways in and in front of the plot;
• Planted the dahlia tubers;
  
• Transplanted seedlings of snapdragons, lobelia, and monarda;
• Lifted (well, dragged) three bags of organic soil conditioner onto the bed where the tomatoes will be planted;
• Turned soil, weeded, clipped, raked and watered.

Whew! I'm tired! My muscles feel stiff and sore from lifting and stretching in ways I haven't lifted nor stretched in months. But as I resume the weekday's inactive sit-at-the-computer stance, the aches and pains remind me that I put my body to good use, I worked hard, and a good looking garden is taking shape.