Saturday dawned bright and clear. I had everything ready in Degsy so I had just had to sort breakfast and go to the the lottie. H got me some nice smoked bacon. I had a couple of bacon butties and a brew for breakfast and went a digging. Once again the lottie was all mine. I put my wellies and overalls on and rolled my barrow up the path. I stopped to check out the Brussels. They are coming on well. I decided to pull out a few Docks but got carries away and cleared the area between the Sprouts and Broccoli. It yielded a small barrow load of weeds and spent brassicas. The weeds went in the bins and the brassicas in the big compo bin. I rolled the barrow back up to the potato bed and set about spud harvesting. The soil was quite wet but again because of the raised bed the soil was in fine condition for digging. I dug and weeded two rows of spuds and made a good job of furttling through the soil to get all the spuds. The spuds in this bit of the patch are Cara. They have withstood the blight quite well so two rows yielded big tubers and lots of them. So much so I filled the trays I had brought with me.
Half way through the spud digging I stopped for a brew. It was lovely sitting in the back of Degsy, out of the wind with a scalding brew. I watched the Robin's checking out my work and bagging a few morsels. The Wren was keeping an eye on me whilst piping and ferreting about the hedgerow. I keep looking at he poo bin and wondering how I am going to stop the sides splaying out. I keep propping them up but the fix never lasts. The muck in the bin must be really heavy after all this rain. By the time a had filled the trays and did a bit of titivating I was knackered so I took myself home please with a job well done.
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