Rain

Will this rain never stop? Everything is looking a bit dilapidated out there. The clematis' glorious flowers have all but gone and the pansies that were in the pots look like a bomb has hit them. I don't know what that is all about.

I have managed to keep the sweet peas going though. I've now built them a proper frame for them to climb up out of bamboo - they look much happier for that.

The tomatoes look like they are doing pretty good too. I gave them a feed yesterday. They seem pretty strong. The wind seemed to get them earlier in the year but they seem happier now. A bit bedraggled, but that's to be understood from what the poor blighters have been through.

Sunflower

This is the dearly sunflower that T and S bought for me as a gift as they were staying this weekend. It arrived fully bloomed like this so I didn't have to do anything at all to it except put it in a new pot and give it a drink. It's looking pretty sunny out there now.

In other news another lily has bloomed, and there are plenty more to go. Min reckons they are well on their way.

Lilies

Asian lilies have bloomed now. Got a bright shock of orange to contrast with the purple. Looking great.

Tonight min and I worked in the rain as we transplanted the sweet peas into their permanent new home. They're getting so tall now - needed to make a higher frame for them out of some bamboo I got from the pound shop.

Also got a BBQ cover and some king Edward seed potatoes, £1 each. I love that shop. It seemed only fitting that I got the bamboo from the same shop I got the sweet peas and their mini propagator.

It's the circle of life.

Salad

This weekend got my first salad from the garden. Had some fish cakes for lunch and there were enough leaves to go with it. Ripped up some rocket and pulled out a few mixed leaves too. The mixed leaves were pretty mixed - there were plants in there that didn't look like lettuce at all. Long stringy things that looked like weeds. I gave them a bite - they weren't very good, so they went in the bin anyway.

Salad was pretty good though. Now I need to grow some more!