To quote the fourth Doctor: "Oh, look! Rocks!"

The small ocean of rocks covers almost the whole four-foot-wide path here, and it's anywhere from two to eight inches deep. I've removed about this many rocks from the north end, and I have twice as many on the south end (courtesy of the old streambed). Rocks removed from the planting beds go into the paths where I trip over them until I can toss them into a wheelbarrow... then they go to the rock pile featured at right.

The freshly-turned bed needs to be raked level, a job I took care of right after taking these pictures. The camera needs the light more than I do, and dark was rapidly approaching.

Next will be to clear the path, border the bed, and rake up mounds for Three Sisters. It was last on my list of beds because the sweet corn needs a head start on the popcorn I'm using for Three Sisters, and the sweet corn got a setback or two. So I have time.

If you heard about my garden last year, the mowed "parkland" just beyond the garlic and the rock pile is the fallow back plot that I used last year. It looks very different when it isn't divided into beds and stuck full of posts.