With a major focus being turned to the garden, many things are going on within the grounds of this area. One of the major things, after clearing all the weeds and other unwanted foliage, is the spreading of gravel. With all the old beds pulled up from the fruit tree areas and the remaining trees and bushes trimmed down to reasonable levels, I can now spread gravel with freedom, not worrying about much getting in the way. Of course after I do finish covering these grounds, I will be better able to come over these graveled grounds with more raised drum beds and hydroponic assemblies, not worrying about grass and weeds springing up through the dirt of these elevated gardens. I've been spreading the gravel, extending out from the greater patched areas, reaching out more and more to cover the bare grounds. Speaking of raised beds, there was one more ground level raised bed that I had to address. I was using it but because its on the ground, it's plagued with constant weed infestation to the point that it gets back breaking to maintain. The wood used to form the bed is on its last leg just as well, due to the inevitable rot that occurs when wood is in contact with the ground for too long. I went ahead and pulled up all the weeds first, spreading them out into the greater yard outside of the fenced in area as I did not want to transplant a bunch of weeds to another area where I'm trying to get rid of weeds. With the weeds gone I was able to dig up the dirt that was in the garden originally. I did not want to reuse this dirt for the same reason, weeds. If I put this dirt in a raised bed, the roots will pick up and infest the beds with more weeds. This dirt was spread out on the softer areas of the garden where I still need to spread gravel. At least if weeds do grow up they can be pulled, if I don't manage to cover the ground with gravel by then. With the last raised bed cleared away I took the time to cut up the boards that I removed from the site, since they were in the middle stages of rotting on one side due to the contact with the dirt on the inside of the garden. I could've used the wood for more firewood but the truth is I have enough tree trunks to cut and split that I don't need to try and salvage this wood as well, being oversaturated, it would take much longer for it to dry out to be usable anyway. I cut the wood into small enough pieces to stack around the remaining bit of stump wood so I can dispose of all this wood when I do another brush pile burn. From here I turned my attention to splitting some logs that were cut from the trunks of the Fallen Trees at an earlier date. I have a large number of logs spread around the ground in front of the stack of trunks that I've been slowly working on the splitter to get the wood processed and stacked on the firewood staging area piles. So far I'm covering up the available pallet space at a good rate, despite there being no real end in sight yet for the trunks being cleaned up. There's a probability that I'll cover up the available pallet space before I get all the tree trunks cut and split into usable firewood. My main goal with the Fallen Trees is to clear the logs from the areas that will be within the fenced in area, when I do get the fences up. By getting these logs cleared, I can then clear the remaining weeds and weed trees from the area, opening up the grounds enough to auger holes for fence posts. Once I get this far in the fence project, I can then focus on getting the rest of the compound closed in, even before fully clearing the Fallen Trees from the area. I also plan on clearing a path along the southern fence line just like I did on the northern fence line just as well so movement all the way around the compound fence will be easier.
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