The digging is complete!! Or at least I hope so. My last slog was from 9pm til 10pm (I’ve been doing my digging after work when I can) and I will be thoroughly happy to leave my spade in the shed for a while. Here’s the result:
Considering it is not that big a hole I was suprised by exactly how much soil came out. Apologies for the bad light in this pitcure, it was pretty late when I took it, but you can kind of get the jist:
It’s not easy to show the depth really but this is my best attempt:
You can see what an awkward shape it was to dig, limited access and a very narrow trench. I managed to scrape my handle constantly on the bricks surrounding the hole and had to get myself into such difficult poses at times to actually get the soil out. I could get both feet in at the wide end but had one leg in and one out for most of the digging.
After a suggestion I am considering turning the bed next to it into pond as well – like so:
What do we think?
