Okay, it's all go at the allotment! Let's bring you somewhat up to speed.
I've been digging a lot. Here's some carpet I unearthed and removed. Using carpet to suppress weeds used to be sound advice... before they were made of plastic. Unlike wool, this will never degrade. Instead, with time, it got buried by nature.My Robin friend picked it of worms.I saved some fox gloves as I went along digging up brambles and other perennial weeds, they'll probably go back in nearish a nice seating area.And here's the fox. It popped by as it went next door. I took a photo and looked at my phone. When I looked up again, they were right there! Right in front of me! We both jumped.Glad I spared this plant too, turns out it's comfrey. I've been rewarded with little yellow flowers.My allotment buddy got a fire going. We've been able to clear some of the organic rubbish which we cannot compost.More digging. Endless digging. It's slow going, with all these rocks in the ground.Progress.I haven't cleared a whole lot of usable ground. Half of what I've cleared has barely any top soil, which I suspect will dry out too quickly come summer. This may look like a man-made slab but it's not. It appears to be the hillside. Depth improves beyond a 2-3 metre squared patch, thankfully.The mattock we found on-site being used as a pickaxe – yep, it looks like rock all the way down.Moving various cairns from across the site in one giant statement piece, until I decide how they're used or where they live.In go 3 rows of first early potatoes.Potatoes protected by a fleece alternative, enviromesh. Peace.
