Christmas and January saw little work due to family commitments, illness and wet weather. Most weekends since have seen at least two hours digging and weeding as well as removing large rocks which are about two spade depths down in a layer of sand and clay. This layer creates waterlogging and abundant growth of Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail. I have taken bucket loads of it's creeping rhizomes out of the soil and I think that, for the next few years, I'm going to have a problem with it but I will get on top of it in the end.
