A morning off work to make up for a slightly wet weekend. My focus was clearing the rest of the weeds from Bed 1. I’ve taken most of the verbena out of the bed, but some of it is a bit entwined with the more valuable rudbeckia.

The mole is still piling soil up against my gate. I need some kind of edging to try and stop it. It’s not as if a hole lets it through the gate; the pile butts up against the wood of the gate. A similar bit of animal interference was evident on the log pile near the pond. Something big (a fox maybe?) had clearly had a bit of a dig in the pile and collapsed it a bit. I added some more, larger logs to the pile from Bed 1.

One log has also gone to the fern bed. I might saw its pokey bit off, but the birds might like to stand on it. This bed might get another log yet. I’ve also got a big bucket of bark that needs to be spread around. I think more logs will help keep the place tidy and reduce the amount of bark lost to the birds.

I did some deadheading of the cosmos, which are still flowering wildly. Rudbeckia and calendula are still going. Even the nasturtiums are still going. Bed 5 is suddenly full of them again, with a few flowers.

The helianthus did pretty poorly this year. The stems didn’t grow very high and there weren’t many flowers.