The old way and the hard way




      The field right in front of the house has, for the first time, been planted with pumpkins so in the late summer and early autumn we going to have an orange landscape to view.
      The farmer is a little bit of a perfectionist, all the plants put in by hand and luckily for him the rain arrived soon after. Then last week he was out there on his small Massey Ferguson tractor in the blazing sun carefully harrowing between the rows to kill off the weeds and the Boss and I thought that was it, but then the gang arrived with good old fashioned hoes.
       The gang, comprised of agricultural students from Poland and Romania hoed between every plant chopping the remaining weeds down and out and now you can practically see and hear the pumpkins growing, in less than a week no soil visible.
      It just proves that the old ways and methods are still effective and they still work.






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  1. Saw several fields with the lovely yellow flowers rouud your way on Monday.Then I got lost round Emneth Hungate yesterday, saw a magnificent peacock though.

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  2. Peacock corner Stephen, they have a dozen so of them. What were you doing in the badlands?

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