It just shouldn't be...

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My shoulder hurts, my elbow hurts, and my right big toe hurts.

Lemme splain, no, lemme sum up. (guess the movie)

I want an asparagus bed.  I got old stuff with old roots in the way.  I cut down the stuff.

Now the roots.  Deep. Thick. Many.  Of course, the first one comes out easy.  Too easy.  See the big hole of fresh dirt... that is where the first set was.  See that big clump of roots just to the left of the big hole of fresh dirt.  Da Bastids.

The second set made up for the first.  How do you dig out roots when all you have is a shovel, and not a backhoe. 

This took me over 2 hours to pull out.  Broken up into 3 different sessions.  I'm fat, old, and out of shape.  The first and third I intend to do something about.  Here are my conquests of the day.  I may even keep them around for inspiration.

Gardening is fun and easy, when there are no roots involved.  Ironic thing is, I can't even pick the asparagus until 2014, that is if I even get it planted this year.

3-4 sets of roots remain.  Oh joy.

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