Beginning To Fence The "Second" Garden

As I dragged by post thumper out of the shed I cursed myself for creating more fencing with my new garden. I thought I'd pretty much finished it! Still it's only a small patch so it shouldn't take too long with rabbit wire. 

This home made tool brings a little bit of dread into my arms when I get it out!

The patch is roughly 30m by 5m plus a 1m path down the one side. I still haven't made a planting plan yet so I'm not sure what's going where or how many plots I'm dividing it up into, I do like to make a plan and stick to it (my plan for my main veg garden can be found here) but by introducing trees that could potentially tie up a plot for two years, it makes planning a little harder. 

No need for a line with this fencing - just follow the ploughing

Posts ready to be knocked in

An hour or so work and I didn't knock any teeth out so it was a good afternoon!

 I'm definitely going to have a bean plot, a squash plot and maybe another one for roots plus I'm considering a patch for outside tomatoes and one for a small scale grain patch - I guess I'm going to have quite a few plots! 

I keep referring to this as my "second garden" but I think it could do with a name - any suggestions? in fact I could do with a name for my main vegetable garden as well really!

Ploughing With A Two Furrow Competition David Brown Plough

Last weekend I managed to get my "second garden" ploughed. 

I've been thinking about increasing my growing space for some time now as I wanted somewhere to grow on my grafted apple tree and somewhere to experiment with other crops and staples. 

 My neighbour and good friend, Ken, is mad on competition ploughing and offered to plough my new patch for me with his little two furrow David Brown plough pulled by his Massey Ferguson '35. It was good fun helping him set it up, as it's a plough designed for competition there was so many adjustments and things to be altered it took a couple of rows to get it set right. 

 We also unearthed a patch of stone in the middle which didn't help matters, other than that the plough turned the ground over and left what looked like books of soil lay down in furrows.

The plan is now to let this patch dry out a bit (if it ever stops raining) then to roll it and rotavate it to produce a seed bed.

It's not a massive patch of ground but it'll be a big increase in my work load this year, trying to keep on top of the weeds and all the extra plants to put in. I'm planning on using lots of mulches and maybe some more weed membrane for paths and other fallow areas. 

What do you think - am I mad to increase my growing area by this much?