I spent most of Sunday digging away in a negelected area of the garden. Make that "even more neglected area", all of the garden has been neglected to some extent. Much of it was just a field and the rest had rubbish distributed in odd piles.

I can manage to dig for about 15 minutes at a time with 15 minute breaks without causing permanent discomfort. I have to build up my muscles as I am one of those people who has slipped a disk in the past and my vetebrae are not quite the shape that nature intended either, having additional growth on them. I can stand up straight OK, I just can't bend much.

Why is it that even in the most remote part, even when you think that you are breaking new ground on what used to be a field, there are pieces of broken Victorian crockery in the soil?

I have been clearing out the bottom of a shallow gully and removing dead wood from the blackberries growing there. Hopefully I can start to train them so that I can get at the fruit next autumn. The nettle roots were dreadfull to behold and the dock roots went down for yards!

I would like to create raised beds for the vegetables in the hope that I will be able to cope with them in later years. Planning ahead I hope. The trouble is when you haven't 100% decided where you want them, it's not easy to move them around!

I was hoping to do some more digging tomorrow, but having arranged the day off it now forecasts rain!