This Sunday it started raining at about 2:30pm, I decided it was time to go home, it took me another 2 hours for me to get home. There is always just one quick thing!

The main thing I did this week is set up the greenstalk and have a sort of four of the strawberry planters, there’s one more I need to check and sort out. Assuming that it survives the wind this week, I think it’s going to make watering the strawberries 100% easier as I can just fill from the top, if I need to water the plants directly the whole thing rotates! I’m already planning another one for the rest of the strawberries. I also potted some runners and I need to do that in the strawberry bed too!

I also planted out the sweet woodruff in the gap behind the planters and before the paving. I’m hoping that it will spread and help keep the weeds down!

In other news, the dahlias continue to do well and I have a different one flowering. Stripes!

I mulched the rhubarb and planted the one in the bucket in the ground! I also did a quick but not thorough weed by the gooseberry bushes, it’s going to need a lot of work and I’m wandering if I should just take the out, dig it all over, do a deep weed and then put them back in maybe with weed membrane down? That would be a winter task, my goal for autumn is to get the worse of the grass and cornflowers out.

I did a bit of a tidy of the table where plants go to die. I potted up the bitter oranges that I bought at Hampton Court, as a ‘lemon’ substitute. And did the same to the kale.

I also removed the netting from the fruit cage, topped up the compost on one of the cherry trees and did a bit of weeding of the asparagus.

It’s funny last week I worked for less time but the result was immediate and showy, this week’s progress looks much less impressive, although I feel that I worked harder this week, probably because of the rain.

On the list for next week is sorting out the remaining grass near the plum tree, moving the cola bottle plant forward toward the path and digging up some of the day lily. I have some marjoram and tarragon to try plant out and I need to sort (remove) the tree spinach and trim the lavender by the fruit cage and the cola bottle plant, the blackcurrant sage and the jasmine by the shed.

There is so much I want to do.

I think that will take most of my four hours next week. But any more time get will be tidying up the tomatoes and weeding. There is so much to weed but the paths around the tomato beds and or the gooseberries are good places to start!