Well, another couple of weekends digging and the old girl is starting to look her old self. About a third of the plot is now dug over, hurray. Some of it will need digging over a few more times and weeding more closely but at least we’ve made a start.
We are keeping the plot to small squares this year, rather than longer strips, as it is easier to manouevre round them and manage the plot as a whole. It also makes digging it over slightly easier cos you can leave the walkways untouched.
I was down this weekend and dug over some more, added manure to the better dug parts and also prepared the onion patch for planting by raking it smooth and adding some topsoil from our mega pile of turf.
The turf pile, like my waist, is beginning to spread out so I removed the carpets, finding a surprised frog inside and re-positioned some of it. I also used the carpets to cover the rest of the undug plot, something we ought to have done earlier to speed the weeding process.
Mum and dad were up this weekend and brought this years onion sets and also some rhubarb crowns from the neighbour across the road, Mr Marsh. No one messes with Mr Marsh when it comes to gardening, so I expect to have rhubarb coming out of our ears within minutes of planting them. In fact I think I can hear the crowns growing in the bag outside.
