A Busy Week — Tillers, Tunnels, Bread and Potatoes
Engines Out, Onions Hoed, and a Greenhouse on Its Way Well. What a week it has been. Not up the allotment as much as I would have liked — the ground has just not been ready for it, if I'm honest. Sun was out and a little wind perfect but not dry enoughfor the soil to not to stick to your boots. You can want the season to arrive as much as you like, and believe me I do, but the ground does not care about your plans. It makes its own mind up. So this week has been a bit of everything — workshop, greenhouse, kitchen, and then finally, finally, back out on the plot. Let me take you through it all. Tuesday — Back Up the Allotment for a Very Different Reason Now. Tuesday was allotment day — but not for planting, not for digging, not for any of the usual reasons you'd make the trip up there. No. Tuesday was about getting the old Merry Tiller home. Or at least the engine off it. We've had this machine a good while now and it's served us brilliantly up on the plots, but ...
