coming alone

Been a while since the last update but been busy in my own way. The third deep bed is in now and ready to plant the carrots, parsnips etc and we got the main dumping area behind the garage cleared ready o plant the potatoes but as things have it and everything is a loabour these days the first plunge of the fork into the soil to turn it over before using the rotovator displayed matted roots from an ivy covered febnce to next doors house.

So plan 2, put the spud sets into half a bag of compost and leave them there ! it turns out that this is the best way tto grow potatoes especially if you want to show them, which we don't but still it gets them off the patio sill and into growth.

My son shoveled a big pile of gravel into bags for me today and it took him 20 minutes. If I had tried to do it I'd have taken at least 4 hours, 6 tea / rest breaks and many pain killers to boot... eeh the halcyon days of youth... bles you son for your help...