Here we are again, bulb planting time, so it’s out with the bulb planting kit and find out wether the recent rains have softened the soil any, answer: a bit.
The first hole we tried resulted in a near hospitalisation as the cutter penetrated about a centimetre before coming to a halt, extra depth was only managed by me jumping into the air and onto the side bars numerous times, it was definitely one-nil to the garden and a sinking feeling as we surveyed the amount of bulbs that needed planting.
Still, nil desperandum, next hole please. A better result, thankfully and the thought that maybe we’d been to close to the big walnut tree with our first attempt.
In reality I think that since the garden exits on a base of clay and short of monsoon like rains for several weeks nothing softens it much below the very top few centimetres we really should have expected what we got. And we we got was some hard work.
All in all results for the hole digging have been a little mixed in the field or areas that haven’t seen much work it’s like a pan of concrete elsewhere not quite as bad.
We tend to the throw them out and plant them where they land methodology for siting our bulbs which can lead to some interesting results for the more ‘lusty’ throwers even leading to recalls from time to time but it’s been great to get out on on with the job for a few reasons, first the summers heat is gone and it’s a whole lot more liveable in the garden and second and maybe more importantly it’s the dream of seeing them next spring.
Anyway back to the throwing!
Ttfn
Ruby&Ruch 