First steps...

Well in the few weeks since we joined the Landshare scheme at Hilltop Farm, things have moved on quite quickly, despite neither my wife Jo or I knowing the first thing about growing anything really, but there a plenty of people around to give us help and good advice whenever we need it.

First thing to do was to get the plot ready for planting; luckily John has a mechanical rotivator which did away with the need for any heavy spade-work!  After that, he hitched a potato planting machine (don't know the techical term!), I jumped on and fed the seed potatoes down the tubes as John drove. The instructions were to drop them every twelve inches; I don't think he was too impressed with my technique, but we shall see what happens...

We also planted some seeds in the polytunnel: beans, peas, carrots, cauliflower and some herbs.

Recently we had a barbecue; this video was taken just after the chicken ate my hamburger...

We also lent a hand as the new fencing went up to keep out the rabbits and chickens.

We're off to France for a few days at half-term, so I'll write another post then; fingers crossed that something will have grown..

All the best,

Mike G.