2 May 2020 - Start of the process
Starting to dig in. The soil there is atrocious - below about 2 cm where there is a bit of a top soil formed by grass there is little but dust, rocks and tree roots.
Here are some of the rocks. Some where so hard to get out, they had to be crashed with a sledgehammer.
Hillside that is still to be covered. I decided to go down to a point about 2 m up from where the yellow bucket is.
Back to other projects for now.
4 May 2020 - Moving right along
First pass completed. The patch is going to be turned over a few more times. I decided not to pull out all of the roots and all of the weeds. Partly because I am lazy, partly because if I did there would be practically no soil left. So instead I chose to use rock dust, compost and worms and gradually build up soil in place.
The choice of crop - beans - hopefully will make it easier.
Possibly the large - or the heaviest - rock pulled. Yours truly couldn't even lift it and had to just push it down the hill, to add to the pile of rock to eventually be crushed into rock dust.
16 May 2020 - Waiting for the crop
Rock dust added, worms added, compost added, seeds planted, patch flooded. Now the results remain to be seen.