Tatties on the Stank

Friday 21st April

Now we know I can cover 95 miles in a day and I can cover 60 miles in hill country on consecutive days the problem is to keep fit for the next three weeks before I go. So I decided to take an evening spin up Haugh wood and across Woolhope Dome. On the way back I noticed again as on Tuesday the potatoes going in.

Sowing potatoes on the Stank

The trees in front are alongside the Lugg about half a mile upstream from the confluence with the Wye at Mordiford. The raised bank beyond the trees is the Stank, the mediaeval flood restraint and beyond that are half a dozen tractors sowing potatoes in one small field. That's a small field by Herefordshire standards, where the fields are very small and it shows just how intensively equipment is used. The hill behind is Dinedor with Hereford to the right of that and Hay Bluff in the far distance.