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Monday, 9 January 2012

Made it!

Another session and I have reached the end of the allotment. I now have 3 huge piles of brambles drying out. Ready for the next phase now, getting all those root balls up!

I will try to lift the rough turf growing on the right to lay down again as paths between the beds.

3 comments:

  1. Excellent effort, how's your back? Been knocking my back garden into shape today, after the Winter, only found 1 bramble thank goodness!!

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  2. Hello Rooko, thanks for the post. Funnily enough, I did suffer a serious and very painful back problem a couple of years ago after smashing up a concrete drive with a sledge hammer (Not as young as I used to be!). It turned out to be a prolapsed disc... Consequently I approached this task with caution but the Azada has proved itself as a complete back-saver, I am using a downwards swinging chopping and drawing action at the base of the brambles where they exit the ground and they just give up, It's quick and amazingly effective but I am keeping the cutting edge of the blade very sharp using a scythe stone, so far I am not even getting a twinge...

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  3. PS. Making a start on the root balls today with the 3-prong fork, I will report on that later....

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