In answer to my ponderings the other day....the John Deere was working at the far end of the back field yesterday and completed the western end just now. Cultivation was solely by the drill unit straight through the capping of the soil...it had been deep ploughed and worked down last Autumn...will h...

What a lovely typical Lincolnshire scene, Clive! Just think what you sow and plant inTHAT space! Much as I like my digging...I think I will leave it to some tracked John Deeres. :) The view, when it is clear, is initially across to Halton Fenside, Wainfleet and then over the Wash to Hunstanton. C.

Turning the camera south east, over the fence....the back field, that was worked down last year after its cereal crop was harvested but not as far as I know sown, due to the wet conditions autumn and winter, is a panned down crust. However, the sprayer was round recently and yesterday a subsoiler an...

Stunning difference Clive - so is that three years work between pictures (or two & a half years neglect and some intensive work recently)? Hello Stephen, It was a concerted effort recently.. The main block of garden, out of shot to the left of photo, was kept partly running but fighting a losin...

Here's a couple of photos ref my earlier post....with the knowledge that upon the next drop of rain it will try to revert, courtesy of the seed base that sadly circumstances over 3 years allowed to happen....hoe, hoe, hoe....

C.

A few weeks ago I was leaning on my cultivator by our garden fence talking to our new neighbour...he asked what was I going to plant.... Only a couple of rows of Bunyards broad beans, I said,...as no time for anything else.... Shame, he said, after all that winter digging you got done... The other d...

I called at our small local garden centre/nursery yesterday afternoon, loads of lovely small shrubs, lots of nice clean loose shallots and onion sets still awaiting purchase...but a certain lack of customers :( Hopefully with the clear sky and sunshine of today they may have a few more in today... I...

Morning Clive, bet you are not being troubled by dust blowing off the field, at present... :) Hello Old H' I bet it will blow when it's ready as it was worked for drilling but not sown and then deluged flat...wet glistening on the top water standing in the sprayer ruts.... Some lawns are 6" lo...

Just had an absolute monsoon here...now cleared..but take a look at the back field....

Sadly too this morning our local windmill suffered a reverse runaway leading to all sails and cap coming adrift and smashing onto the yard...

Here's a further photo of cultivating progress, as of today. Still loads to do...look in the foreground..that patch of buttercup is still there.!!

C.

I was in to work 7:35am and likewise very quiet. Traffic almost nil...petrol station was open but no custom, only a single central line of pumps and every regular day a long queue. Cats at work fed and medicated, greenhouses ventilated and back home to hand weed through raspberry rows. Just done lun...

7 C over here in the East....but the really important bit is that we've had dry for a good few days, at last. Dry roads several mornings now when going into work early. The local river is running clear again and at normal level, its been up and soil brown for seemingly months...and the Beet lifter w...

My father used to plant 60 new Tamella strawberries in a new bed each year. The variety fruits massively and early too in their first year so back then they never got a chance to be mown or sheared, they were just replaced with new plants each year, equally unconventional and a lot of work but it ga...

I've progressed a strip 8' x 21' across the garden today. I found the old nursery line of Tamella strawberries and have trimmed them back and retained them, lightly cultivating immediately around them. They are well past their best but it gives a chance to bounce back....the rest have been scraped o...

I'm progressing slowly up the garden westwards towards the house digging a 5' strip across at a time. Spent some time hand weeding each side of the raspberry and loganberry outer rows so could then work up to along side them but will have to return to clean up the inner and middle rows. Now though I...