The Hill (Part 2)

And so the time came to pass, further evidence was required to show fellow allotmenteers that progress was being made with the colonised ground elder heap. It was not so much a plan being needed but the discipline to chip away at this festering heap. It required physical effort to cut into the pile - a garden spade would have worked but Big Bertha was needed to take the effort out of the task - and physical energy to griddle. A mechanical griddle would have been a blessing but the only one at hand was a conventional round one the would need the same sort of waist movement as Chubby Checker. And a wheel barrow at close quarters with a strong plastic garden bag to receive the ground elder roots. The method was simple, thrust, slice, griddle, bag. The time required for this four part activity was the challenge. To complete two whole barrow loads of the resulting gubbins took approximately sixteen of these movement cycles. So far so good but only a quarter of the hillock had been eaten into.