Ditch Work
Mr Liam Lambert was back on site…must stop calling our home a site!
This time he was a week late as we had already shifted approx. 6-8 tons of sand and soil by hand (!) to make way for the willow coppice, but we always have things that need doing if you have a JCB for 10 minutes! This time it was finally clearing the last of the soil/rubble that the previous owner had excavated for the new drainage ditch. Finally the top paddock looks ‘neat’ and there are no piles of junk around.
Ditch Levelling
Well the last part of the weekend in August that we spent transforming the drive, and to some degree the garden, was spent levelling in the ditch. It is not clear from the pics, but there was a drop of over two feet from the level of the garden, and it is in this space that we plan to put our fruit cage, vegetable plot and chicken run. So this has all been on hold until we could level this off.
Since we have owned The Farm, one side of our land has a disused drainage ditch (a new one now runs behind it) and the ditch is not only deep in place, but has piles of rubbish hidden in forests of weeds and stinging nettles. Ironically, it is in this area that we are planning to have our vegetable patch, fruit cage and chicken run!
