The big red and yellow sunflower had fallen over when I got to the plot. I propped it up three times before it seemed to take. More flowers are coming, so it’s worth trying to save. I cut off some small damaged seed heads and hung them on the old sweet pea strings. I think the little birds should manage to cling on to get the seeds.

It seemed like the season had changed in the plot. Things are dying back and finishing. There are some runner beans left, but they’re very big, so I’m leaving them. One gourd has finished and I’ll be harvesting some of them soon. The teasels have dried out, but I don’t see any sign of seeds yet.

There are now lots of Jack Be Littles because as soon as I trim the plant, it grows another branch. I’ve trimmed it more and there are now fruit growing everywhere. So much for removing the plant if it turned out not to be a pumpkin. There was a chrysalis on one of the leaves I cut off, so I put it on the compost heap.

I did lots of deadheading through the day and cut back more tomato foliage to keep the Roma plants healthy. The trimming also revealed another tomato I’d missed in the morning. A bucket and a half of weeding was done, but I’m still not doing proper weeding among the plants, so nettles are just snapping off when I pull them.

What is clearly an antirrhinum is nearly flowering on the pond ledge. The chaenorhinum seed has somehow turned into antirrhinum.

While going round the beds, I uncovered the top of one of the parsnips and it’s looking a reasonable size. I think most of them needed a bit more thinning, but I’ll probably get a good collection of relatively small roots. Note to self: sow more rows and thin them further apart next time.

I harvested one sweetcorn cob, which turned out to be quite small, so we’ll see how it’s done for development when we cook it. There’s one larger cob left, which I’m hoping the crows will keep ignoring meanwhile.