This plot in Linton, just outside Cambridge is the last and biggest plot that needs preparing….we’ve got four weeks to get in done between our day jobs…PANIC!!!!!
It is about 35 meters long by 10 wide…it looks bigger in the shots because of the wide angle.
Yes it has presently got a recently felled tree lying across it.
I find it very difficult to look at these photos and say ‘Fine tilth’…
I dug a bed out at the other end of the field. This is ten meters by one meter. I have turned the turves over and will let them rot down back to soil and then move them back over….it will save ‘double moving’ them…its called the Benjamin Ranyard Method of Adobe Raised Beds…its all the rage in Shorditch.
Another 15 of these and we’ll be done…
Ben
March 11, 2011 @ 9:20 am
Sorry, you had me at the felled tree and I couldn’t concentrate on the rest….Mmmm! Firewood ;)
March 11, 2011 @ 11:40 pm
one mans meat is another mans poison. :)
March 10, 2011 @ 5:04 pm
Don’t worry Ben, you are not alone! All over the country budding flower growers are hacking at bits of rough pasture, attempting to create nice planting beds. From Martine and her trusty mattock!
March 9, 2011 @ 11:18 pm
Yoga gets me through the pain barrier (and a TENS machine). Just started deturfing a new veg plot-divided into beds to make it psychologically more bearable- am working from the outside in so the workload gets visibly smaller with each spadeful. Grounds for hiring a stripping machine and rotavator.
March 9, 2011 @ 10:53 pm
PS I divided some of your Alchemillia and nabbed three little chunks…which are the first plants in the Linton plot!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
March 9, 2011 @ 9:50 am
Neurofen Melts. They work fast. Just sayin’!
March 9, 2011 @ 10:52 pm
Thanks for the advice Dr Belinda. ;)