Topic: are you ready for spring ? all dug over !

[jimtheworzel]

ime ready are you!

[Sparkly]

Our main plot is all ready, but we took on a new 1/2 plot which we barely had the chance to start before the snow started! Luckily it is in good condition so only really needs digging over before spring.  ;D

[jimtheworzel]

Our main plot is all ready, but we took on a new 1/2 plot which we barely had the chance to start before the snow started! Luckily it is in good condition so only really needs digging over before spring.  ;D
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before spring, you can do nowt but try

[Mr Smith]

Lotty was cleared and dug last backend apart from the winter veg, waiting for the weather to dry out a little then I can do one or two jobs that need to be done, :)

[BoardStupid]

1 plot from last year just needs a bit of titivating. New plot has 1/4 dug and a few fruit trees planted. Weather hasn't been kind for digging. Today I shall venture to plots and see if I can get a fork in. If so then today I shall mostly be digging lol

[Unwashed]

Got it all dug over and edged a month back.  Even gave the shed a sweep out.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'm a very long way from being ready. A lot of it can just be gone over with the digging hoe to get rid of annual weeds, but there's a large patch of bindweed I absolutely have to dig over properly.

[galina]

Long way to go here too.  Firstly I don't do the no crops over winter thing.  I still have all sorts of brassica, garlic, shallots, leeks, parsnips, turnips under cloches, scorzonera, salsify etc growing as well as salad plants under cloches.  Secondly, we have had frosty ground for a very long time.  Today is the first thaw, but there is still some snow on the ground and more snow is forecast.  Before that we had a spell of heavy rain and it is just not advisable to dig clay soil when it is so wet.  Before that wet spell, every last inch was still in use.  There has been no opportunity really, except for digging last year's garlic patch over for lettuce plants and the potato plot for follow on crops.

A dry spell in early spring gets me out and digging like crazy.

[cornykev]

No, for the first time my digging wasn't complete before December.   :'( :'( :'(

[Froglegs]

I only dig the beds that will have spuds in and there all done. :)

[elvis2003]

Our main plot is all ready, but we took on a new 1/2 plot which we barely had the chance to start before the snow started! Luckily it is in good condition so only really needs digging over before spring.  ;D

absolutely snap here! so glad we got our first plot done much earlier than normal,dont know that happened actually....maybe we are know learning something?
good luck with your new plot for 2011 sparkly,isnt it exciting!!!!!!  ;D  ;D

[laurieuk]

Our soil is so light that if I dug it in the autumn I would have to do it again in the spring so I get my sweet pea and runner bean trenches ready but leave the rest till later. Mind you the light soil means it dries out very quick in dry weather it is has disadvantages

[Digeroo]

About 1/2 of mine is dug.  Beans trenches done.  The rest is covered in sprouts and psb etc and permanent crops.  There is only a small bit still to do mostly the remains of last years brocolli which I was eating until the frost got it.  I have never been so ready for next year.

My soil is very light too so I have been incorporating loads of bio material.

Roll on March!

[grawrc]

I still have to dig over my new fruit bed (where I used to have a shed) but most of the rest is ready. I will have to clear the stuff still growing though - and my manure still hasn't arrived. I imagine it's surrounded by snow on the farm still.

[caroline7758]

Not entirely ready but more so than I have been in previous years! I had a plan to go and collect some spent hops every Monday (my day off) through the winter for mulch - I've been once. :-[

[laurieuk]

Not entirely ready but more so than I have been in previous years! I had a plan to go and collect some spent hops every Monday (my day off) through the winter for mulch - I've been once. :-[

I live in Kent (Garden of England) and have not seen spent hops for many years. When I started 1940's we used to get all you could move in a day for about 10 shillings (50p) times change but spent hops are about the best.

[caroline7758]

I get them from the small independent brewery in York, and occasionally from one in Knaresborough if I'm passing- free apart from the petrol to get me there. ::)

[Obelixx]

Don't dig.   Everything's under a foot of snow so won't be spreading compost for a while either.

[I love digging]

Was doing quite well until the weather kicked in. Yesterday was the first day for ages when there wasn't either snow on the ground or the soil was frozen, but after all the rain we had on Monday night the soil is still waterlogged.  Heyho - one day it will be dry and fine - and I shall have to go to work!

[saddad]

I'm not ready... but neither is Spring.. so no rush yet!  :)