2022-10-09: Need more cardboard

Sunday, October 9, 2022

High: 65
Low: 40
Partly cloudy

  • Did some more sheet mulching
  • Pulled buttercup weeds
  • Watered veggie garden
  • Foraged some more figs, with Hayley


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