Between a rock and a hard place

These last couple of weeks it's been all about rocks... We cleared, leveled and covered a section of ground between the Medicinal garden and Fruit garden with weed suppressing material. We also worked on a large section just below the pineapple bed in the Fruit garden. Both areas were fields of Corallita and Tan tan trees before and now they are completely cleared we are just trying to make sure it doesn't come back for a while!

Of course whenever you are leveling anything in our garden you find a ba-zillion (technical term) giant rocks. Luckily we had our rock-removing team, Eric and Cidereon. Cidereon has been working with us for 3 weeks now, he is a 17 year old student doing job-training from the local senior school and he is big strong lad! Rocks quake in his shadow, Tan tan trees would run from his pick axe (if they had legs).

He works very hard, he has a great attitude and we have had a lot of fun with him over the last few weeks. He is on school vacation and class time for the next couple of weeks but hopefully he will be back with us for another job-training session in March.

Jeanette and Eric had their last day in the garden today. We finished the last section of the clearing in the fruit garden just in time so they have been able to see the completion of our mini-project before they leave. Very sad to see them go, they brought positivity and lots of hard work to the garden. I might cry at the airport again... we'll see!

Much love from the garden on the golden rock x

 

This is the area below the pineapples after we had cleared it.

 

This is what it looked like this morning when we finished laying the material.

 

 

Cidereon - rock mover extraordinaire!