Richard went up around 10:30 and cleared off about half of the Fruit plot, I rolled in around 13:30 family followed about an hour later, we dug out the fruit plot (12x2m), the soil is quite silty, its bone dry like talc powder at the moment, which is great for digging out the nettle roots and digging up the grass, but I am getting a bit worried about the drainage, but thats another day.
In addition to digging out the fruit plot we managed to clear out a big section of the bed upto the brambles, found four old beds laid out in roughly the same configuration we are going to use but I think they where 3m by 2m or maybe 4x2's. We'll either salavage the wood or burn it out.
Pictures below are from rachel's camera phone, I forgot mine today :(
This is a large section (About 10m) back cleared, right upto the dreade d brambles (Thats George inspecting the handy work). This is our work in progress this year, we'll clear this out lay in the beds and do the brambles after they have fruited. Should give us 7 beds in total if the maths is right.. Big if... :)
This is the fruit plot, richard did a great job here digging this out and edging it, 12m of space, tempting to plant it but the weeds will be back quickly, large amounts of grass and nettles came out of here so we'll probably sow green manure on it.
She's clear.... Actually we moved the post, it was in the middle of the fruit plot still, first bed down good feeling..
Dave
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