Thursday July 28th
Decided to work on the garden today because it is supposed to be hot and humid tomorrow. I took pictures of the work I did yesterday and today. The plastic tarps I bought are 10 feet by 25 feet and I estimate that I covered 20 feet by 20 feet based on the tarps although it looks as if the remaining uncleared lot is more than 10 feet.
 After I finish clearing the rest of the weeds, I'll re-orient the tarps so that the newest cleared ground will be covered. Then   we can decide on the fence etc. In working today, I found several rusted tomato cages and sensed that the prior renters had used mounded earth to plant rather than either flat or raised beds. Will be interesting to see what the ground actually looks like under all that stuff.