It appears that I may have an muscle injury impinging on a nerve for my left arm, which has slowed me down today. On the positive side it doesn’t really stop me doing anything, but it is constantly nagging at me and causing random pains up and down my arm. Still… stuff gotta get done…
So, starting off with something easy I got rid of all the volunteer potatoes that had sprouted in one bed. It’s a bit shocking how many I missed last Summer, really. I lifted a few bunches of salad onions that have over-wintered too and sorted them into ones that weren’t big enough to eat (which went on the compost) and ones worth keeping. I have a couple more patches too, and I’ll get to those shortly otherwise they’ll start to fatten up. After that I spread more compost on the beds. Not much more than that, but it’s progress. One positive note is that some beds had two dressings of compost last year, because I used the second to “earth up” the potatoes. So I needn’t do those again, which reduces the area I need to cover by almost a quarter.