The Zoltanator

I worked my first season with Zoltan from Hungary and we were a very good team. He's moved on now to be a chef but I'll never forget the times we sweated like crazy (40 degrees plus) whilst winding on and de-sideshooting the toms in the greenhouse, winding on and picking the cucs. And also freezing our fingers

 off cutting caulis in sub zero temperatures in the field.

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            It's amazing what you do in one season on a farm. I can also remember picking up potatoes into sacks, loading bales of hay, picking up pumpkins for harvest, weeding leeks (back breaking), picking broad beans amongst a ton of may weed, picking up onions into boxes, steerage hoeing (good fun but difficult), planting on the planter, moving the irrigation system, putting the strings up for cucs and toms, picking cherry tomatoes into November, clearing the greenhouses, wrapping up trickle tape, rolling up ground sheeting and dumping it with the dumper.

              Traying up cherry tomatoes, sowing squash seeds in the compost, hoeing celeriac, tieing up runner beans and staking them out with the post driver(hard work). Putting out and rolling up rabbit fencing. Pulling up canes after french beans harvest, carrying out plants to be hardened off and giving more space. Planting lettuce and pak choi in the greenhouse, watering plants with the wand and speading vermiculite on the seeds to be sown, weeding around the sweetcorn, picking sprouts for Christmas, feeding the chickens, picking apples and blackberries for the shop, picking spinach, chard, kale and rainbow chard, washing leeks down and weighing them, digging up celeriac, trimming it, washing, weighing and netting, bagging up spuds, labelling eggs, netting up squash and pumpkins, cutting red, tundra, white cabbage, purple caulis, leeks etc, broccoli too, planting, irrigating, setting up, mowing around and finally picking runner beans, the list goes on forever.