Done a bit of hoeing around the broadies. garlic and onions today. Smudging really as the weeds did not cut nicely with the hoe, not much there really but it gives me a week of grace when the weeds really get started. Plot held quite well over my absence. I usually do a bit of 'tickling' here and there but have not really done anything since early November. Once the ground dries a bit I'll start preparing the beds properly and hope for an early spring.
That's a good word for it, Ace, I've just spent an hour with the swoe on my plot, it's just about dry enough to smudge where I want to grow potatoes this year, but not really fun to do yet. It's a good feeling to have got started, though.
I thought you might be posting to say you'd been shaking a smoking sage branch over the plot in some sort of Wicca cleansing ritual.
Tickling and smudging - just as well we follow your drift Ace. Most wouldn't :tongue3: