9 litres of rainwater collected in the last week! The pond had a lot of bindweed in it, so I made a good effort at clearing it out, including the more established bit at the back of the pond. I carefully checked the weed and found several damselfly larvae to return to the water. I later discovered a number in the shallow waters of the bird bowl too. The pond looks much better now, so maybe it’ll start to find its balance again soon.

I weeded Bed 11 at last and got all the big weeds out. There are some good-sized gourds coming and it won’t be long before the first sweetcorn can be picked. A cucumber is also on its way, but a bit small at the moment.

Mum and I cleared all the nigella and weeds out of the fern bed, so it looks better now. I cut some dead foliage off the two suffering ferns and saw signs of some new growth, so maybe they’ll fight back.

I’ve given all the tomatoes a good foliage trim to increase air flow. The Romas are much denser than the Red Alerts, which needed little work.

I magically remembered to gather the pale pink poppy seed, so that dead plant is now out of the parsnip bed. I was dead on my feet, so the whole thing just got thrown onto the compost heap as is.