Finally making progress

After a busy six weeks with Beltane and bad timing of weather on the days I was free, I've finally made it back to the garden.

I got there around 9:30am, overcast but not too cold.  I had a great three hours.  I began by digging out trenches for my heritage potatoes.  I started with good intentions, dug out the soil and planned on riddling it back in on top of the potatoes.  A few loads in through the riddle and I realised that my soil is made of coarse gravel and little pebbles.  I was getting out more pebbles than I was putting soil back in so I quickly gave up on that method.  Instead I broke up the soil as best I could with my hands and just back filled the trenches.  I didn't have any fertiliser so I'll need to find one I can water in.  At the start of the season I had the best of intentions to dig, get the roots and stones out and mix in compost and fertiliser, unfortunately time got in the way.  In my potato plot I have, from left to right, highland burgundy, shetland black, yetholm gypsy and salad blue.

I had to rearrange my plans a little and shift the aliums down to next to the potatoes and move the beans and brasiccas further up. The onions and garlic where next, a bit late in the season but better late than never.  Digging for these was a bit easier, forked the soil, dug and turned, forked again and then raked level.  Left hand side of the onion plot is Hyred, left is Hercules.  The back half of the garlic plot is Elephant garlic whilst the front is TM Choice, I did have "flavour" as well but they had all gone mushy.

By this point I was exhuasted so I swept up, watered in some nematodes to kill the slugs and then sprayed some weed killer on the paths as I made my way out.