The apple tree has now starting blossoming. The pear tree is mostly done, but got a bit nipped by the frosts.

I’ve now removed all the remaining grass that was among the mint and put the bulbs I’d dug up back into the ground. They’ve kind of rotted a bit while being at home, but most remain I think.

With that I believe all the weeding and grass removal is done. There are tiny incidental bits here and there, but it’s no longer on the to do list.

This should be the very first radish coming up.

Last year’s lupins have come back really well and there are seedlings coming up in the front bed, so although it looks a bit empty at the moment, it is starting to fill up again.

Potted on:

• sweetcorn – two of which have only just sprouted and still managed to survive the move
• cosmos
• snapdragons – pricked out to 2 seedlings per cell
• cucumber
• all tomatoes, with some backups in smaller pots

Partial resows:

• nasturtium
• marigold
• malope
• rudbeckia
• cornflowers
• Californian poppies

Complete resows:

• Mars pumpkins
• broccoli
• Jack be little
• calendula

I’ve kept some of the leggy seedlings as backups – cucumber, broccoli and Mars pumpkins – , but I’ll keep them in the grow house permanently, partly as a test of its frost protection.

I’ve resown the coriander at home and set up a wire frame to stop the birds bathing in or pecking at the soil. In other half of the planter I’ve put the leftover snapdragons, with the same protection.