More Digging
She Who Does Not Dig was away for the weekend, and my plans to go climbing fell through, so I had the entire weekend to spend on the plot. Plan was to plant a huge number of potatoes, in the hope that their leaves will stop most weeds returning. The photo below shows the potato rows. The strips in between will be very roughly turned over onto the potatoes when it's time to earth them up.
The digging was exhausting work - lots of nasty and unidentified weeds with very dense and deep roots. Handweeded it all first, then dug it thoroughly to remove as many roots as possible. The soil is full of stones, rounded ones about the size of a damson, so I took out lots of these and have been placing them along the beds. I'll eventually add some edging and the pebbles will form paths.
Some of the runner beans have slight slug damage, and a couple looked sorry for themselves, but a good soak cheered them up. Along with all the rows for potatoes I dug another bed and planted some early purple sprouting broccoli, which I love, and some squashes. They will also provide lots of ground cover and stop some of the weeds returning. Only 1 more of the 4 vegetable patches left to dig and then I can have a break from digging - it's hard work! I did have a portable radio with the cricket on in the background so it was enjoyable as well as tiring, and I was pleased with my work by the end of Sunday.
The digging was exhausting work - lots of nasty and unidentified weeds with very dense and deep roots. Handweeded it all first, then dug it thoroughly to remove as many roots as possible. The soil is full of stones, rounded ones about the size of a damson, so I took out lots of these and have been placing them along the beds. I'll eventually add some edging and the pebbles will form paths.
Some of the runner beans have slight slug damage, and a couple looked sorry for themselves, but a good soak cheered them up. Along with all the rows for potatoes I dug another bed and planted some early purple sprouting broccoli, which I love, and some squashes. They will also provide lots of ground cover and stop some of the weeds returning. Only 1 more of the 4 vegetable patches left to dig and then I can have a break from digging - it's hard work! I did have a portable radio with the cricket on in the background so it was enjoyable as well as tiring, and I was pleased with my work by the end of Sunday.
2 Comments:
Like your blog Luke!
Good luck with the veg growing...........its hot work!
Will put a link on mine so folks can see what you're up to!!
By Val Grainger, At 24 May 2007 11:27
Blimey, that's a lot of work ... I'm getting backache just looking at the pictures. You should be very proud of yourself for tackling that lot and I'm sure it will reward you in due course.
By Rebsie Fairholm, At 28 May 2007 12:55
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