Onions and Carrots…

When I got the plot in the Spring the whole of the plot was grown over and it was showing up all of the other plots around it. The Administrator placed a condition upon me to tidy the site up quickly or he'd take it off me and rent it to someone else.

As there were a few people eyeing this plot up I set to work straight away and I took a spade to it and within a week (of hard work) I had turned over 40ft by 20ft to 1 spade depth with the intention of manuring the site in the Autumn and digging again once in the spring before planting potatoes and onions. I stopped at 40ft because there was a shed and evidence of a path across, which I've now decided to leave in.

Turning over the soil did immediately make the site look tidier as there was now only soil showing where there had previously been weed. However as I'd been too occupied with speed I had more often than not left the weed in the soil (unless it was easy to pull out) and I will have to be on the look out for survivors next Spring.

There's a few odd bits of grass poking through and the odd weed growing now but on the main it's still tidy enough to keep the Administrator off my back. I do have the occasional stab at the soil with a fork on my way past this patch. This is partly to judge whether the ground in the rest of the plot is generally too hard to dig and to attack the weeds that have started to sprout.

Apart from that I'm leaving pretty much well alone.