I continued weeding bed 1 and with cold weather on the way, I took the marigolds out and left only the calendulas. They might survive through the upcoming cold weather, so it might be a case of moving them somewhere. While weeding I discovered that the crows had moved some pebbles from the pond to the corner of the bed. I cleared lots of soil, but the robin kept its distance, just shouting at me from the fence.

Mum had done a wonderfully short mow, so I took the opportunity to try and build up the dip by the water butts. I tipped out most of the reserved mole soil, so I still haven’t actually opened the top soil I bought yet. More soil might go at this point and there’s a patch between the front of Bed 3 and the back of Bed 2 that could possibly do with bringing up a little. I put down a little grass seed, but I can’t imagine it’ll germinate now.

I’ve taken the sunflowers out of Bed 6 and cleared it an amount, but there are still some surviving flowers at the moment.

I added more water to the pond and was pleased to see a non-hibernating diving beetle in there.

The harvest was a couple of carrots, though I had to get rid of a few damaged ones first. I imagine this peeling skin is just serious carrot fly damage.