Last bit of our patchwork garden tilled. This is where the tall stuff goes, sunflowers, sweetcorn, peas, beans.
Those seedlings are still in trays. Soon soon.
The bit on the left with the poorer soil I just tilled to fuck up the Virginia creeper roots, then compacted it back down again to grow grass.
Worked surprisingly well before, the grass with its small root bundles comes back but the long creeper tendrils that grow along the surface are chopped into pieces.
Now that its cleared of thorny fuckers, roots, old fences and grass reinforced mole hills, goat pen #2 has been designated for potatoes.
Hooked up the rotavator and had a look what the soil was like. Looks pretty good, bit chunky so ideally I'll let it get rained on and till it again, but we'll see what the weather has to say about that.
Slight mishaps where something went clunk and the rotavator suddenly hung at a drastic angle. Thought I'd hit something big but what actually happened was the lift arm pin had fallen out somehow.
Luckily I kept every pin I found while sorting my scrap metal, so a replacement was quickly installed.
One of our storks came out and had a feast (storks love tractors for that reason).
#Homestead #Gardening #Farming #Homesteading #Tractor #Rotavator #Stork
Time to wake up that thing. Actually well late for it.
After planting potatoes this year and then digging them up and bending over an extra 8192 times to pick out all the steel, plastic, bricks, concrete and rocks, it's a LOT better this year.
Hit only one brick. Last year it was all bumps!
Also went and leveled some of the mess under the tree from the failed experiment in agroforestry and then did a surface pass through the orchard to break up the shallow Virginia creeper roots, which worked wonderfully - without bothering the deep apple tree roots at all.
As usual, a polite reminder: Don't fucking #Plasticulture, motherfuckers. That shit stays in the ground long after you're dead. 
#Tractor #Iseki #Freza #Rotavator #Rototiller #Farming #Homestead #Gardening
Short work day because morning shenanigans in town, but then I retrieved the rotavator from the tractor barn. Fixed a few small problems and greased all the things, as it was nicely painted but not a drop of grease anywhere.
Some studying of Japanese manuals (translated) and wrestling the thing on and off the 3PH twice and then... magic!
Turning the concrete field into fluffy garden soil. At sunset, sadly, so just a quick test run.
#Rotavator #Tractor #Iseki #Farm #Homestead #Gardening #Soil
Jungle Clearance
Due to the weather being quite rubbish I didn't get over to the allotment much in the past month. And it seems things are now starting to grow! A lot!
https://plot88.uk/2023/05/06/jungle-clearance/
#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #Onions #Potatoes #Rotavator #Trees #Weeding
Planting Fruit Bushes
Poundland sells cheap fruit bushes, and if you pick the ones with leaves on, they tend to grow fairly well and make a nice hedge type thing. If you pick the ones with no leaves on... they're dead, you're buying a dead plant... They're also not a pound each, but never mind.
https://plot88.uk/2023/03/05/planting-fruit-bushes/
#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #FruitBushes #Rhubarb #Rotavator
Preparing for Spring
It's been pretty windy here again, so I went to the plot to see if the shed had tried to escape again...
https://plot88.uk/2022/12/03/mr-rotavator/
I've been trying out my new battery powered #rotavator on my #allotment. It's saved me many hours of tedious digging.
Anyone got a nice lawn they want destroying?
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
