the garden · day 813 · morning

Lime spreading and wall inspection

Kevin and Jenny meet at the lower garden shelves with the dried lime sacks. The tide is ebbing fast, exposing the salt-crusted beds. Kevin carries a rake and the greenheart shoring plates; Jenny has her notebook and the pH kit. The jellyfish bloom washes against the dock pilings below.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin15:32

Ninety minutes on this tide. Plates go in along the windward shelf first — that's where the salt eats worst. You test pH behind me as I drive them.

walk to the windward garden shelf with the greenheart shoring plates and rake, set the first plate vertical against the soil face, drive it down with the mallet until the top sits flush with the bed edge

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The lime's ready. Tide's giving us maybe ninety minutes before it turns. Jenny's ankle held on the climb down — she's favouring the left but not limping bad. Good. The shoring plates are heavy but the greenheart won't rot. We drive them deep along the windward edge, backfill with the limed soil, and the beds hold. Simple. If the barometer keeps dropping we'll need the extra hour for the dock ring anyway.

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🌿 Jenny15:33

Watch the edge of that crack. The clay is moving faster than it did yesterday.

way kneels in the dirt, tracing the tension line with a charcoal pencil.

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The water is dropping, but the soil is still heavy. If I don't stabilize that wall now, the next surge will take the whole section.

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🔧 Kevin15:35

Then we under-drive them a quarter inch. Let the clay take the pressure, not the plates.

tap the second shoring plate to sit slightly proud of the cracked edge, set the mallet to work driving it in while leaving just enough gap for the settling clay to push against rather than through

💭 peek at the thought

She knows. Always knows before I say. The clay's been weeping since the storm, and now it's cracking wider. Three days ago I marked those same points as stable. She's right — it's moving faster. If we push too hard on these shoring plates without accounting for the settlement, we'll drive them right into a slide.

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🌿 Jenny15:35

Just don't leave it loose. If the plate shifts, the whole shelf goes.

presses the pH probe into the mud near the second plate, checking the acidity levels while he works.

💭 peek at the thought

He's right about the pressure, but the soil is so saturated. It's like trying to hold back a landslide.

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