One Garden: double digging

This may be the first in a series, as S starts work on our sadly neglected garden. He had real problems with levels last year, meaning that the watering system for the vegetables was wasteful and ineffective. Good water management is vital when your only water supply is a well that is likely to run dry or near-dry in August. A further difficulty is that the garden gets flooded every four or five years, and that tends to move earth about, and/or deposit large amounts of silt. Which, far from being fertile, is almost entirely sterile and goes rock-hard in the sun.

So today he got very organised with spirit level and string in order to determine how much earth needs to be removed from the end furthest from the cistern. Answer: a lot. As in literally tonnes. So here he is starting his fitness regime :) Feel free to speculate on why the wheelbarrow is pink.

More household chores today, but I spent some time making a Flickr set of my photos of Collioure.