A neglected patch

Today I woke up with the resolution (it’s that sort of week) to attend to my upper vegetable bed. It has a habit of being out of sight and out of mind.   Up there I grow the asparagus, potatoes, raspberries, soft fruit that doesn’t fit in the orchard, and anything else that can manage without too much assiduous watering.

And today I want to reclaim it from the autumn weeds.   So with a power breakfast of fabulous bread and cheese and a litre of tea, I shall surge out and attend.

And I did.   The soil was soft and not frozen and I just laboured away at the patches where the potatoes grew in the summer.   I have a bonus bucket of forgotten pink fir apple ones.   And a tonne of weeds.

I decided to leave the actual asparagus bed for last.   So by lunchtime I had managed one long row.

Looks fetching I must say.   And then for an encore I crept up to the asparagus bed and removed the old black weed proof fabric, tossed the stones to the side, and earthed the whole bed up.

I will have to come up with a weeding solution in the spring when everything will burst back into life again, but for now. I’m very pleased.

I do have another part of the top vegetable garden on the top side of the raspberries (just out of shot) that isn’t going to get snapped just yet. It’s a thicket of cabbages, net, and mess.   Next trip I shall attend.