I’d gathered 7 litres of rainwater in my buckets, which was wonderful! That’s gone into the butts, along with whatever came via the gutters. The chaenorhinum along the front of the pond is doing quite nicely and I’m pretty sure there’s an antirrhinum at the bird bowl end. Unless it’s all antirrhinum?!

I did two buckets of weeding from all over, but concentrating on the the front bed. That’s finished for now. I’m leaving the allium to be a splash of colour. I’m not sure where they will end up with bed renovation; maybe moved somewhere where I don’t need to disturb the soil.

The pears look good on the tree, only a few seem to have scab so far.

Happily, with cutting the right hand everlasting pea back an amount I discovered one of the bear’s breeches in flower under all the mess. That’s now been revealed and given more space.

The deadheading will have to wait for now as the weeding did me in. All the transplants from last week are still alive, so there’s a chance of continued colour. I wonder if the anise hyssop in Bed 6 and in small pots at home would be of any use in the gap on the left and in the front bed.

The runner beans have kicked off properly now. Time to carefully scan the wigwam up, down and inside each time.

I have quite a lot of gourds in Bed 11 and with all the rain one of them in particular had taken off left and was trying to climb my mini sweetcorn. I have a few cucumbers coming now and there’s also the unknown cucurbit on the compost heap, which is going great guns. All the time it’s not impeding access, I’ll let it grow to find out what it is.