This is not about the film (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth if you don't know about it), but about something much more down to earth (as opposed to Earth): clay soil and ground-elder are a tough combination for digging up turf for creating a veg patch. The roots are so long and they hold the clay soil around it... Ah well... should one buy one's house according to one's garden's soil and check whether there is any ground-elder? Nah... not if it is south-facing, and big. And in a good location. :-)
Oh, and now to something completely different: tomatoes! The first plants have gone into the green house; actually, they have been in there for over a week now. Most folks use grow bags flat, and we have found that this means that the roots don't have so much space to go anywhere, and also that the "thin layer of soil" dries out quickly... Of course, we didn't have this "stroke of genius" alone... Just whilst I was looking for an image to prove how other people do it, I found a blog post on advertising/advising folks of exactly "our" method (go to http://tomatolover.com/grow-bags-halved-and-upended/). Anyway, these are only the first four plants, the HG assures me - more will come later this year. At least the greenhouse looks now less empty. :-)SG
Now that you will have the tomatoes, will you learn to make pizza?
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