The potatoes have been dug up and sorted and stored so now it’s time to till the soil and break up the clods so that we can plant it again, firstly with green manure ( a crop that will grow now and be turned back into the soil to nourish it) and later with broad beans, peas and runners.

Dear Gill, thank you for your evocative, elegant, earthy post. More Seamus Heaney for you! With love, Emer x
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