Sunday's Digging

I spent today turning the last 3 of my in ground beds.  The area was completely grown over with grass and moss:

First, I used a square nose shovel to perforate the grass around the perimeter of my beds, and then removed the sod layer from the top and set it aside for compost later, I spotted quite a few worms, it should be pretty good!  Next, I used a regular shovel to turn the dirt underneath once.  After that, I spread on about 2 inches of composted horse manure, and turned the soil two more times to break up large chunks of soil and mix it in well.

The outline of my hops patch, minus the sod:

Turned once, with manure on top:

Turned 2 more times and raked:

Outline of my barley patch, sod partially removed:

Barley patch fully cleared:

I didn't have time to take pictures of mixing in the manure for the barley patch, it started to rain and I didnt want to get my camera wet, so I finished up and went inside to plan my compost bin design and go to the hardware store to get supplies for it.