Seed update

Artichokes, nasturtiums starting to show and some calendula, although these have been disappointing. They usually do well and quickly so not sure if my cheap seed compost is doing the job. Anyway lots of sunflowers sown and more cosmos and sweetcorn.

This wks view

New mini bed

Willow growing

Weeding fruit beds

Night-marestail!

What a shock this wk, no sign of the lovely marestail at last wks visit then confronted by this site after a week of rain!

To be honest nothing has ever been planted here as it was always the worse bed but plans were to grow flowers so by packing them in it could overpower the marestail. Not sure if this will work but you can see why I can never direct sow.

Not sure what to do but definitely want the flowers so looks like more hard graft!

Seed update

Pleased to report, Statice sown inside has started to show - must have killed other inside seeds with too much heat in the propagators as these had no additional heat.

Finally, some seeds in the coldframe are also showing - artichoke I think! No idea why theusually reliable calendula is not showing yet but fingers crossed they will get a move on. Will be running out of space soon, as usual.