Back in March we wrote an article on the barganews vegetable garden entitled “The spring is sprung, the grass is ris.” Prophetic words indeed as since then the grass has done nothing but rise, rise, rise.
We had problems right from the start of the season as the ground was 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 and failed miserably as the ground was just too waterlogged, stopping the tractor in its tracks.
The compost had to unloaded in field below and then brought up manually. Since then it has done nothing but rain, the newly spread compost made the grass grow which of course all had to be cut before the ground could be ploughed. (article here)
The rain has not stopped and so the vegetable garden is now, by anybodies reckoning, at least a month behind in its schedule but finally this morning in a brief lull between the drops, we finally managed to get a tractor onto both fields to deep plough the ground.
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Ok we are now off and running (well, running is probably a bit of an exaggeration…off and limping is more like it)