The good weather that this area has been lucky enough to enjoy over the past week or so has meant that we can start to think about the more or less abandoned barganews vegetable garden once again. Last year was, to put in mildly, a disaster – an unmitigated disaster. Torrential rain at the start of the season which stopped the tractors from even managing to get on to the field, late planting and then various diseases destroyed a good part of the crop leaving a dismal end of year summing up of the barganews vegetable garden 2010.
All things are cyclical and what goes around, must come around … or something like that. A new year, a new season and time to start thinking about preparing the fields for the spring. Definite signs of the spring could be seen this morning down on the fields with daffodils starting to push through and crocuses appearing on the banks above the fields but it is early days yet, memories of snow on the ground at Easter still remain in many people minds when talking about early spring weather.
So down to work – the bamboo poles which held up the tomato plants need to be cleared and also the electric fence needs to be taken down so that the tractor can have a clean sweep in the next week or so when the ground will be ploughed over ready for the frost to help break up the clods.
Next on the list of things to do – find some good fertiliser to spread on both fields before the tractor arrives.
The year is only a few weeks old but already, time is of the essence.
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