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Inspired by seeing Mr Aqui start digging the pumpkin patch yesterday. It wasn't big - about 4ftx2ft - so we both thought he'd be able to dig it in a day. I tried to help, but the area wasn't big enough for the both of us and my ankle hurt too much.

However, after three hours, he'd dug half of it and his hands were too sore to continue. The ground was practically solid as it was so stoney. He pulled out numerous bricks and slabs (good - we need plenty of those) plus the equivalent of several bin bags full of small, useless stones.

So my pumpkins (well, squashes) still don't have their new home.

oh weedy definitely - they may come back again and again, but its pretty hard to stub your toe, or jar your back while digging a weed out!  


Hope Mr A's hands feel better soon.

We've got both. stony and weedy!

"and some seed fell on stoney ground"-you can get rid of stones-bindweed and ground elder is another matter.

Stephan

Yo Aqui - firstly - please send my respect to Mr Aqui.  Mr AC won't go to the lottie at all except under conditions of extreme duress!  I've not been feeling quite the ticket in recent days, so managed to persuade him to do a bit of watering whilst I supervised - bless... 'twas the threat of no veggies that did it!

Jo2 - sympathies ..  me to.

On our lottie plot we use the stones to:
- Fill in the potholes down the access track (but not kind to tyres)
- make permanent paths on the plots
- make little stone cairns (storage - nowhere else to put them!)
- bases for structures (currently making a wee cairn for my shed base)
- personally, I use the stones most to fill 2ltr pop bottles with their bases cut off to:
    a) stop the ground cover blowing away
    b) prop up the temporary edging for the beds
    c) this time only about a quarter full of stones, screw top
        removed (obviously) and 'planted' upside down, for watering
        purposes.

AC x   :D

We have both also.  I have enough stones to build dry stone walls around my plot and have cobbled paths!  We used bucket fulls for our new pond and the pebble stream, then I use them in the paths, and other than that, they are gradually being piled up behind my shed!