May 29th, 2021
The weather picks up once more and after a few days of hard digging as you can see in the picture the 2nd and 3rd quadrants are now racing ahead.
Check out the fire area though, look at the speed that the weeds (Couch grass in particular) has grown! This is why we needed to get our skates on - the whole area is coming alive now as Spring is coming to an end.
Check out the potatoes! We have Swiss Chard growing in front of the polytunnel too (no idea how as we didn’t plant any). Carrots, parsnips and radish all now making their presence known as well.
In the second plot we have planted out some tomatoes. They are "Money Makers" which was a favourite of Chris' father. Let's hope these give us a good crop this year.
We now just only have a small section of digging to do by the fire and a few rows on the 3rd quadrant to finish off. This plot had fewer weeds and so progress has been quicker.
Just in case you thought we had turned part of the plot into a pallet storage area, let me say that once the digging is over, we’re onto building a compost heap area… so these pallets are going to be the basis for this.
So far so good. Apart from the repairing of the polytunnel and the delay that it introduced into our schedule, things are progressing well. It’s been digging, digging and more digging thus far, but we can see the light at the end of that particular tunnel now.
