Digging clay and planting onions

Went to the allotment this morning to get some more digging done and plant some onions. The onions are "Sturon" we had grown from sets, from RHS: "Sturon AGM: A popular and reliable onion with excellent flavour and medium-sized bulbs that store well over winter." We grew these before & they do indeed keep very well. Due perhaps to rather generous spacing these are now covering some 20% or so of the plot:

Lots of work from Helen & Emily doing this, happy I think to have it done:

While they were busy with this I was trying to dig the other side of the plot which is an interesting composite material made from heavy clay and bindweed roots:

However after an hour or so more digging am starting to run out of clay to dig - gutted:

Think much later in the year will need to get a lot of organic material mixed in to try and break this down some.

In other news, we now have neighbours on the plot just south of us 17B - have yet to meet them but they appear to have made a good start on clearing. Hopefully this will help to keep weeds down on this side of the plot...