Catching the weather.

In a season of very short days, late mornings after Christmas festivities, and general cold, snowy or wet weather, it was good to snatch a few hours over the weekend to continue the dig.

Apart from disposing of the piles of dock roots and couch grass turfs, the surface clearance is now complete, and the double digging to clear the potato area has begun, prior to preparing the trenches.

Yesterday it was great to see rainbow as the sleet started to fall.


Today as we were digging, a fox strolled right up to us without bothering about us. We didn't get its photo, but found evidence it has been raiding sheds!





Meanwhile back at home, the parsnips from the original patch that started all this off are now being consumed.

Happy Christmas to all the diggers!

Greetings from a cold and foggy allotment, Christmas Eve 2009.





(Seeds arrived today. Sowing will soon arrive, once I have finished clearing and preparing the ground!)

December dig.

Despite the forecast, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon were great days, if a little cold at times. I spent two hours on Saturday, and between us we spent another hour on Sunday continuing to surface clear the plot. We can actually see the end to the clearing soon, then onto the proper preparing of the ground.