The morning was a bit frustrating after good runner bean and sweet pea harvest. I headed off to the garden centre for bedding plants for Bed 3, then to the nursery and then back to the garden centre, ultimately picking up two planters from the front of the shop. I dismantled the pots into their various parts, which were part bedding plants and part white fuchsias. They’ve now gone into Bed 3 with a heavy layer of compost added around them.

I’ve put the remaining stones and gravel into the pond. If the beach becomes low on stones again, I’ll just have to fish them out of the pond and put them back. Things had been rather displaced with evidence of bird bathing this morning.

It’s been a month since I fed the plants, but that’s now finally done again. Mostly with tomato food, but some general fertiliser for Bed 3 and the perovskias. There’s now a new cucumber to encourage. The onions, oca and veg were given water. The last sown seed for the carrots has germinated,  filling the holes.