Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a significant transformation at Diddly Squat Farm, sparked by a sudden urge to spring-clean the entire farmyard. As the UK has basked in occasional bursts of glorious sunshine over the past two months, many have made the most of the weather, spending time outdoors or even taking an early trip to the beach. However, in his column for The Times, Clarkson shared that he dedicated the "first vaguely warm and pleasant day of the year" to decluttering and organising his vast 1,000-acre farm.

The 65 year old TV personality wrote: "Most of us have a drawer of "many things" in the kitchen. You want a nine-volt battery? You look in the drawer. You want a rubber band or a paper clip? You look in the drawer. You want a razor blade or a drinking straw or a ten euro note? They're all in your kitchen drawer as well."

"On average you rummage around in your kitchen drawer once a week, looking for your Swiss Army knife or a pair of scissors or some binoculars, and you don’t give it a second thought. But then, at the first hint of spring sunshine, we are genetically programmed to think, “I must do something about this drawer. It’s driving me mad.”

This epiphany inspired the former Top Gear host to embark on the "Herculean" task of cleaning up his farm. By the end of the first day, Clarkson had filled an impressive three skips worth of waste.

The father-of-three, Jeremy, opened up about the "Herculean" effort of managing his farm, which was not without its hurdles, including his co-star and fellow farmer Kaleb Cooper heading off to the Yorkshire Dales after being asked for assistance.

"The first problem I encountered was that nothing in farming has an obvious purpose," Jeremy explained. "There's always a dusty electrical box of some kind with ugly wiring and some light rust."

He went on to describe the frustrating state of agricultural equipment: "And to make everything worse, everything designed for agricultural use appears to be broken and rusty when it's brand new. So I'd pick something up from under some discarded plastic sheeting and not know what it was, or what it did, or whether Kaleb had bought it last week, or if it had been left in the yard by someone who got letters that began 'My liege'."

Jeremy expressed his confusion over how to organise the farm tools: "I therefore didn't know what I should throw away and what I should keep. And if I did decide it was worth keeping, I didn't know whether it should go in the fencing department or in the animal-handling section."

After toiling tirelessly into the night for three days, Jeremy proudly stated that the task was accomplished and "everything was in its proper place". The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host is said to have purchased 1,000 acres of the Sarsden estate in Chipping Norton in 2008, which included Curdle Hill Farm, cultivating barley, rapeseed, and wheat in rotation.

In 2019, when the tenant retired, Jeremy took on the challenge of farming himself, renaming the land to Diddly Squat Farm and sharing his farming exploits on Prime Video.