Strimming and planting potatoes

This was all brambles. The hope is we can turn it in to a grassy slope with a few strimmings. We still need to chop down the holly tree at the end of the bank there, it has evn more brambles around it. We are slowly driving them from some areas - although they are taking over others!

The posts are holding up strings for the hops.

Here are the potatoes, I am trying planting them with the rows across the bed rather than up and down this year to see if we can manage to get them mounded up more thoroughly and therefore a better crop. Something seems to nibble on quite a few of the potatoes so I have put out a trap too.

The are Charlotte in bed F6, Monalisa in B5 and Charlotte at the front of F7 with Monalisa at the back of that bed (writing it down in case I forget!)