Monday - Week 2

It's Monday a new week in Erraid, we are tuned in and ready to work in the gardens. Some back breaking work removing a chaos of nettles and weeds and to reveal solitary stems of garlic that will be ready in August.

The sun is out, so the gardens are the place to be given the endless jobs and challenges of running working gardens like these.

Everything grown will ultimately feed the community, but there will be a summer of competing weeds and garden pests keen to get in on the action.

Whilst we are working outside others are in the kitchen getting lunch ready when you can guarantee garden workers with big appetites at the bell.

On to measuring out the soil and putting in wooden posts with an heavy post hammer needed to whack them in.

We took turns as once that hammer starts moving it takes a fast spurt of energy and strength to secure the wooden posts deep enough to survive the island wind.

Posts up then it's wire netting to be laid down the length of the field before finishing up by planting the peas and watering them.

Obviously all this Felicity Kendal back to the land work does no good at all to one's expensive manicure, suddenly the need for those manky looking garden gloves becomes clear.