Problems right at the start of the season on the barganews vegetable garden, now in its second year, as the ground is still much too wet to allow the tractors access to the fields.
We tried getting the small tractor of Paolo Lazzarini with a load of compost onto the bottom field this evening and failed miserably as the ground was just too waterlogged, stopping the tractor in its tracks.
After a couple of attempts the ground became so rutted that we have to give up and just dump the compost in the field below.
Now this means that the it will now all have to moved up by hand and spread over the field before the large tractor arrives later on this month to deep plough both fields once again.
Not really a good start to the year really but still one thing that was realised last year was that having a vegetable garden is just a long series of problem solving – this was just another problem to be solved.
On the brighter side, the strawberries that were moved from the bottom field last week to avoid the plough are now doing well on the bank between the top and bottom field. White flowers on one or two of the plants testify to their good health.
There is an expression used both here in Maine and also back in Nova Scotia, seems appropriate for this:
"Same compost, different pile"
cheers!