Sorry you’re hurting, Augie. My back goes out once in a while - for no reason, it seems. Frustrating!
Why did you move the garden? I must’ve missed that part...
I have a spot on the left lower back that I tweaked 2-3 decades ago and it’s been recurring ever since, and as you say, sometimes for no apparent reason. Not lifting anything and just make the wrong move and I’m gimping for three days. The left leg stride becomes really short.
Messing with those 80 lb bags of concrete, digging, other and lifting this past weekend made my lower back muscles sore in general but evidently, didn’t tweak that spot. I must be getting better at not doing the specific tweak move even though I don’t exactly know what that is.
When I decided to rebuild the garden the idea was to switch over to raised beds because all that bending over hurts too much.
The current plan is to use new corrugated barn metal and PT lumber to build raised beds up front. I'll use that space for root crops and others that maintain a low growth habit.
The new space is going out behind the barn and where I don't have to look at it and will be almost double the square footage of the garden that I tore out. I'll put perennials along with the tall and unruly things out there. Arbors for the winter squash and pole beans will go back there along with a new hoop house.
There's a lot of work yet to do to make all of that happen so I need to get cracking if I'm going to have a garden this spring.