I did a couple of buckets of weeding and pulled up more borage. It wasn’t a comprehensive job; there are still some bits of weeds that were just cut down rather than dug out, because it was too hot to bother too much. I did get under the apple tree and cut the big hanging branches though.

A few buckets of good stuff went onto the compost heap, including windfalls and all the sweet peas. Again, I just cut those down. There’s still an amount to pull out of the ground, plus the strings to remove.

The red dragonfly was around the pond most of the time. Impossible to photograph when it’s on the poppy seed heads because of all the things behind it.

I fed the beans, cucumbers, Red Alerts, zinnias, cosmos and rudbeckia. The veg and Roma all got watered, along with the anise hyssop, one of which has magically flowered.

I picked a bunch of zinnias, calendula and a small sunflower. They’ve made two pretty vases at home, which gives me the taste for growing more cut flowers.