Preparation for planting.

We're feeling slightly up against it and it's now 10.20pm and P is out rotovating still. We've spent the day loading the hopper of the spreader full of lime and fertiliser. Spreading said stuff, which I'm guessing I shouldn't have inhaled so much of as my lungs are not happy, and periodically pulling P out of which ever part of overly boggy vineyard he's got stuck in.

We're feeling however like we have accomplished things. We just need to finish rotovating,preferably before it rains (2am tomorrow morning!) and although that's clearly not going to happen at least some of it will be done.

I've made 3 phone calls all in French and all apparently (although there's still room for that not to be true) understood and so we've sorted (almost) some of the bigger things on this months list.

Everyone now needs to think positive thoughts for the start of July... the 9th to be precise when we may or may not be replanting!

We've also been doing my second favourite job, the lifting! It makes the vineyard look all tidy and like a proper vineyard not lots of rows of hairy plants!

Before:

 And after:

Tired but feeling like we're getting there.