Not exactly the plot, or gardening, but yesterday I was finally allocated a peat bank.
Up on a section of moor where people have been cutting for centuries. Not so many now though.
The Grazing Clerk took me round and picked out a suggested bank. It hasn't been cut for a few years, so he said I'd need to take the face back at least one spade-width and recommended paying for someone with a digger to do it.
Once dried, the peat is as hard as coal, so I thought the digging would be really hard, and the turfing, through heather, also difficult.
Went back later with a (sharpened) spade. Spade cut through turf and soil like a hot knife through butter. So I cut back 8m of bank, then cut peats from those. About an hour's work, the peats will be enough for nearly a month in winter.
My back is reminding me that I'm not 20 anymore though.