Showered Off

Thursday was a big improvement on yesterday, at least we saw some sunshine. The day was spoilt by a couple of very heavy showers, one late afternoon and another late into the evening.

Now when earlier I say spoilt that’s not necessarily true in all cases. On the plot in the afternoon I was cultivating the bed for our young winter brassicas. This bed had been sown with green manure earlier in the year which had been cut down. The bed had been dug and prepared for our winter brassicas. The rain in early July however had compacted the soil into the consistency of concrete and there was no way we would be able to plant into soil in this condition. 

So the cultivator was back in business to turn over the ground. It’s been a couple of weeks since we had any appreciable rain and besides being like concrete the ground was surprising dry. So in some ways the couple of heavy showers might do the bed some good.  Just got finished as the first heavy shower of the day arrived to curtail any more allotmenting for the day. All we have to do now is get our young plants into the ground.

Just a note to say that the long grass visible on the unkempt allotment in the background is not ours and is awaiting new plotters to take it on.