I should have been down during the week as the clover was very high and there were lots of beans to pick. I did a mow on 3 and then I hope to strim and mow again, but there’s so much clover that it’ll probably be 2 then 1.

I can see the damselfly larvae in the pond and they’re bigger than before. There’s not too much more blanket weed.

Crows had been at the sweetcorn, so I had to pull up some damaged/eaten cobs and foliage. When I went to throw it on the compost heap, I found that the unknown cucurbit there had really taken off. I trimmed the leaves back a bit to keep a bit of access to the compost heap. I then had to trim back all the nettles that were coming through the fence. To make a bit more space I’ve emptied half a bag of leaves into the black bin and the other half onto the compost.

There’s a lizard living in the wooden leaf bin and he was basking on top of the bin before I scared him off.

I did lots of deadheading and weeding. I’ve now cleared the alliums out of the front bed and weeded all around the callicarpa. It’s looking a bit better and I think it’s benefitted from the feed I’ve given it. More weeding is needed around the salvias and helianthus. I’m still not sure what to do with this bed.

The alliums are now stored in a paper bag, and I’ve also saved the seed from some dark blue nigella in Bed 3.

Some of the small dry onions had been disturbed by something, so I pulled up all the dry ones. A few were no good, but overall they weren’t bad. I’ll get the larger ones with green leaves next time – and then the nigella at home needs to be put in! Also harvested: the first tomatoes.