I had intended to be back in the plot on the 21st, but I brought Covid back from Salzburg. We’d had some good rain, but annoyingly the pond level was back to below the beach, even though the patch seems to be holding. I’ll need to properly fill to know for sure though. A red dragonfly came to visit though, so it’s still a useful tiny pond.

There were loads of tomatoes to harvest, along with a bunch big beans and a cucumber that I only saw by chance. Somehow, the cosmos is still flowering, even though it’s in desperate need of deadheading. One of the plum tomato plants looks like it’s got the beginnings of blight, so I’m making sure to pick any of those tomatoes that will come.

The oca looks good in the back bed and all of a sudden I’ve got a beautiful pile of flowering verbena. Maybe I’ll be able to transplant them successfully into the back of the left bed over the next few months.

The length of the grass isn’t too bad, but I did find a little pile of earth – mole or vole? Perhaps that’s what disturbed the log a few weeks ago. There’s lots to do, but it feels more like it’s because of the season than the time I’ve had away. It’s pretty much time to start slowly clearing up now.