This weekend, Plot 28 was filled with the sights, sounds and smells of spring. The sunshine on Saturday afforded me my first opportunity this year to get my dibber out and I didn't waste my chance. It does an allotmenteers heart the power of good to see his dibber glinting in the early spring sunshine. Thanks to Chris and Elly's stirling efforts at Christmas, I can safely assert that I now have the biggest dibber to be found anywhere in the County.
I wasted no time in planting two beds with onions, shallots and garlic and then I passed a happy afternoon preparing a new trench for the raspberry canes that should be with me this weekend. Sunday was given over to mulching; a strenuous and solitary job, but none the less enjoyable for it. Plot 28 will be filling-up thick and fast in coming weeks and I'll keep you up to date with my progress.
For those of you suffering a twinge of dibber-envy, remember this; it's not the size of your dibber, it's how you fill the hole. Happy dibbing.
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Dib, dib, dib, old son!
ReplyDeleteWhere's the YouTube video - Dibbing the Clow Way!
Curious - what are the sounds that can be heard around Plot 28? You sticking with the traditional R5 cricket commentary plus a bit of Radio 1 (if that still exists) or are the Dibberati around your way being treated to some of the more arcane music from your collection?
Videos are a work-in-progress. In the meantime, I may treat you to a few alluring stills of my dibber. The only permissable sounds are from chickens, grunting diggers and the scraping of hoes. Music is definitely an in-shed activity and Plot 28's shed will not be ready until Easter. But then, oh my, Tom Waits, Miles D, R4?
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