baymule
Garden Master
This will be my second year garden. Last year was total utter failure. I started with raw land, it rained for several months, then stopped. The sun came out and scorched everything that didn't drown or rot. Grasshoppers attacked and I pretty much would up with a big, fat, nothing.
http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/baymules-2015-garden-from-raw-land.16897/
I took down the green plastic fence in September, mowed the mess down, and pulled T-posts. My husband watched in frustration, he couldn't do anything to help because he had just had a triple bypass. He finally got well enough to get back in the swing of things and we hauled load after load of pine shavings from a horse event center. We spread them out and then started fencing the garden.
Once we got the fence finished, we got 3 pigs. They were so tiny, running around in the garden. The shavings were pretty deep in places and they burrowed down in them. The pigs also loved their Hawg Hut I built for them.
All winter the pigs have rooted in the garden. They have dug up briar roots, sumac roots and weeds. I got a bucket full of briars twice a week. We dumped in bags of leaves and two trailer loads of leaves and pine straw. They pooped all over the garden and grew bigger and bigger.
Today we loaded the pigs up in the trailer, in the morning we take them to slaughter. We dragged the Hawg Hut out, hitched the disc to Marigold and I played in the dirt for over two hours. HUGE holes! I dragged the disc around and around. Sometimes I had opposite wheels in the air spinning and got no traction. I got the dirt fairly smooth, but need a good rain to settle the dirt, then I'll disc some more. I can't wait to start planting!
http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/baymules-2015-garden-from-raw-land.16897/
I took down the green plastic fence in September, mowed the mess down, and pulled T-posts. My husband watched in frustration, he couldn't do anything to help because he had just had a triple bypass. He finally got well enough to get back in the swing of things and we hauled load after load of pine shavings from a horse event center. We spread them out and then started fencing the garden.
Once we got the fence finished, we got 3 pigs. They were so tiny, running around in the garden. The shavings were pretty deep in places and they burrowed down in them. The pigs also loved their Hawg Hut I built for them.
All winter the pigs have rooted in the garden. They have dug up briar roots, sumac roots and weeds. I got a bucket full of briars twice a week. We dumped in bags of leaves and two trailer loads of leaves and pine straw. They pooped all over the garden and grew bigger and bigger.
Today we loaded the pigs up in the trailer, in the morning we take them to slaughter. We dragged the Hawg Hut out, hitched the disc to Marigold and I played in the dirt for over two hours. HUGE holes! I dragged the disc around and around. Sometimes I had opposite wheels in the air spinning and got no traction. I got the dirt fairly smooth, but need a good rain to settle the dirt, then I'll disc some more. I can't wait to start planting!
You could just about fit my whole yard including my house in there. So looking forward to see how it develops over the year. 
Steve
I love the space you have for a garden. I Think besides the pig wallows, the pigs did a great job for you. 
