FrogPrincess

Started digging up the 4 rows of tatties I'd left in the ground since last year...they are enormous. Only a few have been worm eaten, the rest are all bakers now, might try this again this year - salad potatoes or bakers? Bought a couple of Wisteria plants half price from Woolies and a blackberry cane. I love berries and will probably eat them straight off the canes again this year. I've been advised that they will grow everywhere so I need to cut down a foot away from the main cane in the autumn and separate the new canes. They have plenty of room to grow so might leave them be for a while.

Back to digging stones up again - I'd left about a quarter of the plot empty last year and covered it with black plastic to stop the weeds getting too much - unveiled it yesterday and dockens still managed to grow underneath it! They didn't last long after a morning digging up roots etc. I found another two large stones - thought my fork was goning to break lifting the corner of the second one. The plots here used to be a granite work area back in the 50's and most of the stones I dig up are cuttings, the latest two must be left overs from grave stones or wall copings. First one was about 40 cm square and about 10-15 cm deep, the second one must be 40 x 70 and the same deep. It was so heavy I had to drag it along the ground. Think I over worked my back as it is kinda sore today. After the grave stones were cleared, the ground was easy to dig over and I got 2 rows of second earlies in "Edzell Blue" for baking and mashing (so the packet says anyway). They have

Took a trip to No 5 after some serious storms here and I had to lift both sheds upright again. There are not really sheds as such, one has been recycled from its earlier life as an office filing cabinet (looks like a metal wardrobe) and the other one was a weekend project involving some pallets (and odd pieces of wood we inherited when we moved house 2 years ago). I felt like I'd had a proper workout after righting them! The plot looks quite bedraggled at the moment, not very much growing, the onions are at least withstanding the wind but the strawberries are really looking flat and not likely to survive the forecast snow. When I got home again, went onto Ebay...now the proud owner of 2 cloches that should help the strawberries get a better and warmer start to the season. Will wait to see if the instructions on how to make them up are as easy as the item description said they'd be...not convinced (memories of flat pack furniture are surfacing)