We’ve got a few days of high temperatures, so I did some potting on at home in the shade in the morning. The four remaining sweetcorn have been moved into bigger pots. The zinnias have all been moved on to bigger pots too. The rudbeckia are tiny, and while the marigolds are comparatively big, they’re not worth moving.

Later, I made a post-dinner visit to the plot to do the strimming. It wasn’t too overgrown, thanks to Mum’s mower reaching further, so it didn’t take forever. The ground is so uneven now and I can’t get the gate all the way open because it catches on a lump in the ground. That needs solving and I’d love to get the ground levelled better on a wider scale. 

The potatoes are up now and looking good. Maybe I’ll do them again, depending on how easy they are to dig up. Covering them with straw is certainly much easier than earthing up. 

Something had been digging around in the plot – in the fern bed, at some of the straw, one of the tomatoes and, of course, knocking everything around under the bird feeder. I knocked the old bug hotel apart and threw the big bits under the tree onto the brush pile.

I removed the parsnips cover and found that there are a few up. Last year’s are almost flowering and at this point, I think I’ll just leave them and not worry about digging them out for food. 

A teasel has suddenly sprung up almost out of nowhere. I guess I knew there was a rosette there, but suddenly the plant is huge. 

I watered a few things, including the aquilegia, which isn’t looking very happy. It has some mildew, but possibly I’ll be able to feed it and give it some more strength.