It does seem like all we do on our visits to the plot is dig… but we’re making really good progress and we can see proper soil!!
Today we almost cleared the area where Marjory used to live, levelling out and digging out the blasted dandelions…
New canes for the raspberries has tidied up that section very [...]

With Marjory threatening to take over the entire plot, we thought we should move her to a new home…
An enjoyable lunch and wander round Gates Nurseries prompted us to buy a ‘flat-pack’ composter. It was hard work slimming down Marjory and getting her moved in, but it has made such a difference to the [...]

Marjory (our compost heap) is taking up most of the space on the most weeded plot, so we’ve only sown two rows of carrots:
‘Early Nantes 2′ – an old packet which we’ve probably sown far too late, but nevermind!
and
‘Autumn King’ – we’re a little more hopeful for these!
Forgot to put the bird scarer up (cane [...]

As you know we’ve been a bit slap-dash/fair-weather/downright lazy so far this year!! But yesterday we had a good old weeding and digging session and cleared a large section of our thistles, couch grass and other weedy enemies!
We’ve topped with black bags, weighed down with some of the pulled up weeds – with this and our [...]