Keeping in mind that the right hand side of the allotment is last to get unnavigable, I set to work on the left hand border, clearing the grass and weeds. I’ve dug up a clump of physostegia to clear space in front of the right hand perovskia and made sure the left one was clearer too. Hopefully they’ll do better next year.

I did lots of general pulling up of dead nigella and poppies etc. I’m gradually clearing the rubbish out of the way to get down to the real mess I’ll need to clear in the soil.

A piece of couch grass had poked its way through the plastic up on the beach. Fortunately not too low and quite obvious, so it was fairly easy to mend. I knew that having one layer of PVC would mean that the pond isn’t permanent, but I hope it’s not about to be attacked by the damn grass all over. I tried to pump the glue into the hole a bit as the grass only broke off, and I’ve added a layer of glue in the area too.

There’s a real hole in the ground to the right of the pond, where a lupin has half-rotted away. It’s by my toad shelter and really needs a bit more of a roof over the hole.

In the afternoon we delivered a couple of bags of compost to the allotment and did a bit more weeding while we were there. Beds 2 and 10 will be done tomorrow.