As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing

Went down to post a letter this morning and saw that Frank had started ploughing. So I grapped my camera and took some photos. Also took some more in the early afternoon when Frank and Mike were just finishing off.

As I Watch’d The Ploughman Ploughing

by Walt Whitman

As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields—or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

Time for a bit of morris music!
Speed the Plough

A bit of moving about

A work party yesterday with Mike using the mini digger to reduce the depth of the banking next to the roadway and a team of allotmenteers barrowing the soil to build up the depth of  some low areas at the far end.
The turning area has also been cleared of soil and debris, so a good tidy up all round ready for ploughing during the week.

Back the right way up again

No blog posts for the last few weeks as I've been in New Zealand on holiday. However from the various emails I knew that I'd see some changes to the site on my return.

Mike has finished the hedgelaying at the far end and has put up a stockproof fence. Work on the hedge alongside the lane will have to wait until after bird nesting.

A grubber plough has been over the land twice in the last few weeks and large amounts of root matter are gradually being removed ,Andy's chrome proving to be the most effective tool for the job ( chrome photo  taken by Martin)

Hopefully final ploughing can be done next week and the allotments then marked out to start work on our own plots by Easter?

Hedgelaying

Work began on hedgelaying a few days ago.The first couple of photos show Mike,Ron and Frank on day one.The rest were taken this morning before the mist cleared.