Finally it stopped raining enough for me to get out there and try to get the plot in shape. I couldn’t do the normal 9:00am start a I had a few jobs to do first. I arrived on site about 11:15, took a look around (not much had changed thank god!) and decided to start working on the area behind the strawberry patch. Using the new technique as shown by Roy, I simply turned over the soil and removed any root’s that I could find. After about 2 hours I’d managed to turn over quite a bit of the section I was working on.
If you look at the picture above, at the bottom you will see a leafy type plant sticking up, I didn’t have a clue what this was so I thought I’d dig it up in-case it was a weed….it turned out to be a Onion! Show’s that I need to read some more 
During this time John and another chap (who’s name I do not know) from the plot next door popped over for a chat. John also brought some Jerusalem Artichoke for me to plant. During the conversation we talked about the strawberries and how they can be almost be like a weed, they have long tentacles that seem to stretch out and start growing on other areas of your plot. The 2 guys recommended digging up the current strawberry patch (which included some Raspberries) and moving it to the back of the plot. I must admit I’d been thinking that the space they were taking up was almost a quarter of the area I had, so it was decided. They were coming up. Digging up the strawberries was harder than all of the digging I’d done on the section behind.
This picture show the patch before digging.
This is the patch after digging
As you can see, I’ve not finished the section but I’ve taken up the main parts of the patch and hopefully next Sunday I should have this fully cleared. This will leave me to finish this section…….
I’ve a bad feeling this is going to be the toughest section to dig over, fingers crossed though!
