Breaking up your soil - Claire's Allotment Part 4

How to break up your soil - and find hidden gems!

Fourth in a series featuring my two allotments.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Allotment
• Gardening
• Potatoes
• Spuds
• Gardeners'
• World
• Joe
• Swift

[32ewing]

wow yummy red head x

[clairesallotment]

@32ewing It's all natural. No grey hairs yet, but I keep checking.

[Carneysmachine78]

I need to stop watching your videos Claire but they are a lot of fun so I'll stop for the night. When you finished turning your soil you sounded just like me earlier today, a tad out of breath. Please keep up the great work, I am learning a lot.

[clairesallotment]

@Carneysmachine78 I work very hard at the allotment, so when I was turning the soil over it was tough. Now it's mainly weed free there's less of the back breaking work to do. If I'm not breathless I've not been working hard enough! Have fun on your plot.

[59acres]

Cool vid Claire.Might I suggest you look into a Broadfork for your digging.they are about 2ft wide so are a real time saver.I use one a fair bit on my market garden farm.Cheers.

[clairesallotment]

Don't know if I'd be able to lift it when it's full of soil. Sound great though.

[32ewing]

ah the older woman even better lol

[kokonutbaby1]

To Katjarina..do u mean mustard greens?

[Katjarina]

first of all: do sow green manure so that the soil is not naked in winter - it will prevent the nutritions from getting washed out.And if you sow mustard that will apparently help against wire-worm as something in that crop makes the ww unable to hatch ..

good luck!!

[clairesallotment]

No going down the gym for me. They bore me anyway, and are too expensive. Hope you're enjoying your potatoes.