Our garden is designed to be very low maintenance. We have no grass at all, our front garden is all junipers and cedar bark mulch instead. This means that we only have to replenish the mulch once a year and we are basically done gardening for the year.
The challenge for us is, of course, to go and get heavy things like bags of bark mulch without an automobile. Last year we hauled four bags of mulch back from Home Depot. This year we got a break when Loblaws decided to stock the stuff for a lower price than Home Depot. They are closer to where we live and so we did two runs down there today and picked up four bags of cedar mulch, two bags of plain mulch for the back yard and a bag of sand at Walmart, too. The sand is to mix with the clay soil we have along with the loamy topsoil we got last time to make something that drains a bit better for vegetable gardening.
The cedar bags were 30 lbs each so that first run was about 120 lbs - child's play for the Rhoades Car after the 280 lbs of soil we hauled previously. The second run was about 100 lbs, including 40 lbs of sand.
Once we had the supplies at home it only took about thirty minutes to dump the mulch strategically around the garden and spread it out by hand. Now the garden is all ready for summertime and all done with the incredible hauling power of the Rhoades Car.
Total quadracycling for 2009 so far - 21 km
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