15th Sept - Boy back on the Team

Having had a truly spectacular two week biking holiday through France and Spain, Si felt it only right that he return to being my right-hand digger-man. The first task of Saturday morning was to take yet more dumpy bags of weeds, fit only for destruction, to the the local tip. It's just good to start the day with a clean slate.

Unfortunately traffic was heavy going and shifting large bags of weeds takes its toll but we eventually returned ready to get started on a spot of lunch to give us energy for the never ending task ahead.

Then with my trusty fork and the new stainless steel fork acquired from Amazon at a very reasonable £16.99 we made a start and measured out the oh so familiar metre wide section to dig. I started north by the site's central path and Si started south.

I was finding it really tough. It's quite grassy up north with nasty matting roots as previously reported. I have a strong inkling that the grass is actually couch grass which I definitely need shot of as they choke everything they come in to contact with (so I wasn't wrong to be fearful of them in my Matrix analogy last week). Also with the long dry spell, the ground is still rock hard. I was getting nowhere fast, my trusty old fork wasn't breaking the surface and I could see Si storming away with the super new fork and was clearing a beautiful square patch. I know it's not a competition (Hazel, Si's sister will understand) but I was vexed that Si was doing better than me. After all I had had loads more practice over the previous weeks. This was one of the very few times when I've felt despondent at the task ahead. I called for a drinks break and suggested we swap ends.

Feeling quite smug I got straight to it and Si stuck super new fork into the tough soil and snapped it! I still find it hard to believe that a £16.99 fork from Amazon would snap...

It just wasn't the day for it and my metre wide section wasn't completed. Beaten into submission we decided to call it a day but not before lopping off some more hedgerow. Well if we were going to fill the car up again we might as well do it with full bags of green waste.

Seriously when will this ever end so I can write about veg I'm growing not weeds I'm pulling