Halfway There

And adjust it has! I dug twice as much today as Monday, in two sessions split by lunch and a rest break, with much less soreness than last time. We went to the Cafe for a sundae, and that always helps, too ;).

A quote about why I'm hacking out bushes by W. Robinson (editor) from The Vegetable Garden by MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux (containing a detailed list of heirloom varieties going back to 1920):

" We cannot grow vegetables well under trees, and in attempting to do so we destroy the roots of the trees... The vegetables, too, would be more wholesome for good light and air, for shade from ragged and profitless trees and bushes and hedges is one of the evils of this hopeless kind of garden. The broken crops, too, (for the most part sickly patches) are not such as one can be proud of."

I'm taking out as many "profitless" plants as I can!