Showing posts with label couch grass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label couch grass. Show all posts

Monday 18 February 2013

In the Beginning

Today was my first day working on the plot. The sun came out and the day was glorious. I had no excuses. But what a splendid day it was. I thoroughly enjoyed shearing away at the couch grass and digging out the weeds.

At the start of the day the allotment looked like this:


It's not quite as big as it looks. It extends to just after the wigwam of canes. Beyond that is a vacant plot. As you can see it's very overgrown. However, it's slightly deceiving as my other half has toiled away for many years on this site so lurking under all of that grass is some pretty decent soil.

Two and half hours later I had made some headway in one corner:


 
 
Felt pretty chuffed for my first day, but oh how all my muscles ache!!!