There was an amount to harvest this morning: small tomatoes, some larger, and a bunch of Romas too. I picked some more onions; only one had the root plate missing, and one was my prize onion. Only a few are left in Bed 8 now.

The pear tree has lots of fruit, but they’re not quite ready yet. One had fallen, which was a bit yellower and riper-looking. The Cara potatoes have died back a bit, but similarly they’re not quite ready to be harvested yet.

The one sweetcorn cob isn’t ready yet and the same plant has done the weird thing at the top where it tries to grow a cob in the tassel too.

The ground has been tunnelled all over the place by the vole / mole. Along with the need to be scarified, it really needs some sorting.

I cut down some of the nettles by the compost bin, so I could get around the end and pull off some of the bindweed on the frame. This allowed me to spread out the heap of compost somewhat, as I’d been trying to keep the new stuff away from the bindweed.

I did some lupin deadheading and cutting back, pull up bits of runner beans and clumps of nasturtiums, and made a start on demolishing all the corn marigolds. They’ll already have shed so much seed, but at least I know what the seedlings look like now. Next year they’ll just get hoed back in. It looks like a real forest when you’re sat next to it.

We’ve had some rain, but it’s made no difference to the pond water level, which is still below the bird bowl.

Somehow an anise hyssop has kept growing this year, neglected in a pot in Bed 6. Now the trick is to keep it alive – I think it might need to get a bit bigger yet before I let it out into a border.