Not just late, very, very late … but finally the giornaledibarganews vegetable garden actually has something vegetable in the ground – 50 kilos of seed potatoes to be precise.
But first the area had to be secured against the marauding porcupines. Wooden posts were put up and an electric fence strung up around the field.
A small problem with the battery which powers the electric fence and which should last at least two seasons, but which invariably gives up the ghost towards the end of just one summer was solved by a quick trip down to the local dealer.
OK, finally things are starting to move and the world looks a slightly more positive place.
Fence now up and running … anybody out there want to test it?
Hopefully it will do its job and keep out the marauding spiny and invariably hungry animals.
Giorgio who once again this year has ploughed the two fields for us (article here) has also kindly lent us his small rotator which makes life a good deal easier when dealing with the soil in the top field which at the moment is waterlogged and in the bottom field which has a completely different texture bordering on clay in certain places.
In fact the top field is still so water logged that the rotator bogged down in the mud so many times that in the end a whole section of the field was left untouched and not seeded. Maybe something else can be planted there at a later date.
So now the work really starts. Next on the list of things to sort out: preparing the bottom field for the tomatoes, maize, zucchini and beans. The electric fence has to be put up on the bottom field and at some point the whole water system has to be sorted out getting water from a nearby stream onto the field.
Busy, busy, busy