This was a family garden once maintained by my grandfather (Archie) and later by my father.  Every year the tractor came (we live in town) and plowed the whole works.  Later my father switched to using tillers and on a smaller scale, plowed the whole works.  I was in the garden section of the bookstore and saw Lee Reich's "Weedless Gardening" book and bought it, read it, and now a year later we have a productive, nice looking garden.  The house is higher than the garden so we modified the downspout from the eaves to fill two trash cans of water.  These supply the water for drip irrigation in the garden. When... (see more)