Hard Labour

Today Andrew and I spent four and a half hours hard physical graft on the allotment.

The first task was to clear the area along the fence. We uncovered loads of half disintegrating plastic bin liners, and yet more metal poles and tubes, which I'm sure will be useful next year. The old panel was put down to make a piece of decking, but as our feet went through it we decided to use it against the steel fence instead. Oh, and we spotted some trains as well.



As you can see, the chairs we discovered earlier in the week became useful today.




Here you can see down the plot looking west. The bushes mark the end of our half.
I guess we have cleared the top growth from about one third of the area now, but non has been properly dug yet.

The really hard bits today were:

• removing the brambles I cut on Thursday
• digging out the roots from one of the trees and a few of the brambles
• drinking tea.

I'd like to get a few seeds in next week, but there is a lot of digging to do before that is possible.

Finally, here am I, bitten by insects but pleased with a good week's progress.