To-do(ne)

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Today, I:

- Thoroughly swept the hot tub deck, front porch, and the stepping stones between (the crevasses between the bricks of the front porch makes this non-trivial);
- Filled in the hole on the other side of the hot tub deck, where the irrigation bypass valve was put in ten years ago and never reburied;
- Put a bunch of stuff that had been on the front porch (roughly) where it needs to go;
- Dragged the massively heavy old spa cover to where it can be put into the pickup for the next dump run;
- Dug the potatoes (four gallons worth) and put them into cool storage for a while;
- Tied up a line of particularly feisty tomato plants;
- Pulled the old bean plants;
- Picked a bunch of tomatoes, squash, and beans;
- Brought home a cubic yard of compost with the truck;
- Went out to fill one of our portable gasoline tanks;
- Fired up the rototiller for the first time in four years (thank you for not being difficult, sir)
- Rototilled half the back lawn;
- Raked the area, then covered it with compost;
- Raked it again, seeded it, then raked lightly yet again;
- Rescued two very alert alligator lizards from A.J.

I got everything done I had set out to do this morning... I still have to fill a garden bed and build another (small) one, but that can be Monday. I should also run out there while it's still light and sow some new bean seeds.

Edit: Bean seeds sown, where the blue spuds were. There were a lot of woodlice from the leaf mulch I had put around the potatoes; hopefully they won't eat all the new bean plants. Next set of beans goes in when I pull the onions in a couple of weeks.

Intensive gardening (in far fewer beds than I want) is challenging, but it seems to be working out.