Spring bank Holiday

So what to do?

Well everything is growing with wild abandon!!

This weekend needs to be cut everything down...........plant everything out....................sow everything in...........no time for anything else!!!!!

some more views and and a test hole dug to see what type of soil we had..........

As you can see  - clay, and all that means



taken from one corner - across to the top. Didnt know at the time but the field had been used as a menage - so under the grass was a layer of sand, and a carpet like cloth - which has been a pig to dig out



Same view a year later - soem of the cloth removed and some crops attempting to grow - fairly unsuccessfully

A further year later - the polytunnel has bene brought forward a year and is being built in the corner - the war with the cloth is over, and the sand has begun to break the clay up into a easier mix in some part. However pasture weeds are still trying to take over

Early this year - polytunnel up and running, a yew hedge and anti-rabbit fence built around the patch - and hopes for full production this year

An evolution of a pasture- bringing it up to speed

We moved from having two allotments to a smallholding that had no set aside area to grow veg - we needed to alocate an area, so we chose the pasture to the side of the house - it was closeand had easy access - and it was also next to oour designated chicken filed - so both areas were servicable by the house

It was used as a pony paddock and had become a bit wild...........

shall we ever get this off the ground???

I'm going to try again to get this going - lets see how we go!! Now I have sorted out how to put images in etc - I'll start to update - below Spud - a little taste of things to come

Spud

Spud - a month old!!