Well… the dirt arrived yesterday, on Earth Day, which I thought was kinda cool.

I got 3 cubic yards of the good stuff and it’s screened and compost mixed, and by all my neighbors and friends reports from a good dirt provider.   Which is very important you know, like having a good dentist and a mechanic you trust.

It wasn’t dirt cheap… HAHAHAHA…. ah, I didn’t even mean to do that.  It wasn’t cheap actually, $120 but I figure it’s a lot easier than going and getting umpteen hundred bags of topsoil from the big box place and it’s delivered (which is good because I still don’t have a van back… it died on Saturday…)  and we girls really wanted to get digging.

So we got started.  Unfortunately all we have to tote the stuff is a foursome of these little 2.5 gal pails.   So we decided, if peasants in China can build a wall a zillion miles long just a bucket at a time, we can fill up a few raised beds.   Besides the walking and lifting and all would be good for us.

It takes a lot of bucket loads to fill up a bed.   And yeah, I helped too!  My back is crying out in agony today so yep, I didn’t just take video and photos… it’s a blogger’s job you know, to document the things going on.   So during my breaks, I photographed!

3 cubic yard is a lot of dirt.  Really, it is.

In the end, by sundown, we had two of them filled up pretty much.   I want to go and get a couple 10-15 bags of cow poo compost to really juice up the beds…  so we didn’t fill them tippy top.   I figure since we only want to do this whole construction thing once, I want to make sure it’s a good and worthy effort and that we have a bumper crop the first year!!!

Aren’t they purdy looking????