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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: AndynJ on September 12, 2013, 09:06:53 pm

Title: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: AndynJ on September 12, 2013, 09:06:53 pm

I put this in the veg section but maybe their too serious down there so I'll see how it goes up here.
 
So I'm there thinking what shall I do for an hour before dinner, we have an area of 20 metres x 10 metres that's pretty rough, patches of stone, lots of bramble I tried the rotovator on it 6 months ago it just wouldn't touch it. so I decided I would dig the whole thing over to a depth of 750mm (yes 3/4 metre) in order to get the majority of weeds out.
So I put my gloves on and got started before I new it "dinners ready" well an hour gone 20x 10 all dug over and 2 piles of weeds ready for bonfire
Thank goodness for mini diggers  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 12, 2013, 09:31:09 pm

 :roflanim:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: john and helen on September 12, 2013, 10:23:19 pm

 :roflanim: excellent,

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: Daisys Mum on September 13, 2013, 06:52:47 am

 :roflanim: :thumbsup:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: cloddopper on September 15, 2013, 11:30:31 pm

Like it  ....
Did that with our 3/4 acre garden that had not been cultivated for over 30 years..
My digger was a 15 ton Ruston Bucyrus with a 3/4cubic  mtr. bucket to a depth of one metre ...... easy peasy took out 40 or so tree stumps as well  .


Manured it the same way with 40 tonne of spent mushroom compost , two x two tonne trailer loads pig muck & three of seasoned crew yard muck a few weeks later .

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: AndynJ on September 16, 2013, 04:38:13 am

wow I thought I was being a clever clogs
We have chicken poo ready,
down here in Devon there does seem to be a lot of bull poo available, all FREE  :roflanim:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: Daisys Mum on September 16, 2013, 07:12:45 am

In our last house we put down 10 ton of Bull s**t and then top soil, never again flaming lawn needed cut just about every day  :-\

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 16, 2013, 10:36:19 pm

 :roflanim:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: cloddopper on September 17, 2013, 02:54:19 pm

Quote from: Daisys Mum on September 16, 2013, 07:12:45 am

In our last house we put down 10 ton of Bull s**t  and then top soil, never again flaming lawn needed cut just about every day  :-\

 They do that in the houses of parliament every day and still the economy won't grow  :roflanim:

Title: Re: digging over the veg patch (who said its hardwork)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 17, 2013, 11:01:18 pm

Quote from: cloddopper on September 17, 2013, 02:54:19 pm

Quote from: Daisys Mum on September 16, 2013, 07:12:45 am

In our last house we put down 10 ton of Bull s**t  and then top soil, never again flaming lawn needed cut just about every day  :-\

 They do that in the houses of parliament every day and still the economy won't grow  :roflanim:

 :roflanim: :roflanim: