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Made hard heavy work out of a simple job.

Took the chance of digging soil over with fork to remove any weeds prior to setting some potato drills up.

Should have known better, soil sticking to boots.

Took three hours to dig and set up 5 drills, drills only 18ft long.

Could hear Harry Dodson turning in his grave, bless him.

Digmore. 

Digmore, I know what you mean!  Presumably you are also on heavy clay soil, where the optimum digging window is about a week every year, if that!  Before it sticks to your boots and then it sets like concrete and you can't get a fork in other than in the cracks that develop 

I am afraid, I also do some digging/planting at the wrong time every year, just to get it all done.  And potatoes can deal with cloddy, clumpy soil at a push.  Too bad ........... but that's just the way it is unless you've got a small army of gardeners available on exactly the right day

I thank goodness for my friable raised beds but still have half an allotment flat  on clay. I just about managed to scrape the top this week and it is already like concrete on the top several inches. I have the sore wrists to prove it and an azada that now needs sharpening again. There will be no other window this year. I didn`t get sticky boots but it has gone from sticky to concrete almost overnight

You are making me realise how lucky I am

Quote from: pumpkinlover on April 02, 2014, 13:19:54
You are making me realise how lucky I am

I was thinking same...

Don't talk to me about clay. Mine's impossible!