Last week I prepared the potager for the vegetable seed planting using my (still shiny) red rotovator (motobineuse). I have five strips of soil now warming up by the day and three more on the other side of the field in the fosse bed. After (quite a lot) of trial and error I have got the machine set up well now so it chugs along quite happily with little need for me to push or heave it around, it leaves a pretty finely dug strip of soil that looks almost ready for sowing. I was feeling pretty happy with this and our facteur (postman) commented on the work when he dropped off a phone bill on Saturday (he also described my new green post box as “Impeccable” as it now meets La Poste’s standards – it’s worth staying in with your postie!)
Lucien, our neighbour opposite, was working on his potager today. He dug his with a tractor and plough – a real red tractor with a big shiny steel plough. Not sure how I can beat that ….
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