Bramble bonfire
Here’s the fire I made of the bramble roots from just 4 sq m of my new allotment empire.
Burn, you bastards, burn!
Progress on digging it has been snail-like. Not to mention expensive; I got a bit ambitious with one particularly stubborn bramble root and broke my wretched fork.
My feelings are best expressed by the slogan a Norfolk grass turf company used to have written on its lorries:
“If you can’t seed it, sod it.”
well done soilman, on that tales from the green valley program it took 3 of them weeks with mattocks to clear them.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Such a gratifying sight I’ve been digging out brambles for bloody weeks it’s great to see them getting what they deserve!
April 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
That’s a familiar site. The total toll so far from digging over my 1/3rd of a plot which was totally overgrown last October and is now pretty much ready to go has been two forks and two spades. I’ve gone over to buying heavyweight tools from the builders merchants, all steel construction, no wood, all big tough joints.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:08 pm