I thought that this week was the week I was doing to finish the paths. Reader, I did not finish the paths!

I got side tracked by the state of the front bed and the amount of plants that needed to go in the ground. So I weeded the front bed, I dug up one of the day lilies and moved the cola plant. In weeding I found a bunch of bulbs which I relocated to around the tree. I also mulched the area around the tree with woodchip and while I was thinking about it weeded the blackberries and mulched with woodchip.

Planted in the bed were the cotton lavender plants, a lavatera clementii ‘Barnsley Baby’, four tarragon plants to add to the two already there (one French, one Mexican and two tolergon which are supposed to be hardy), two leucanthemum ’banana cream’, and three lily of the valley. I have no idea what I’m doing so let’s hope it looks nice next year!

Then I decided to sort out the spare bed of tomatoes which I’d set up in the summer. It had been semi successful, but it was time for an autumn tidy.

As I was doing this and weeding around it, I found a bunch of rooted strawberry runners and I had five asparagus plants left over from buying too many in the spring. So I put them in there.

Then it was time for more woodchip. I’ve done up to the table but I still haven’t tackled the two side paths and the area in front of the table, I am close but it was raining by this point and I still had plants to situate

It was quick growing salad collection, some chard and lettuces, I had given Sue a collection for her small garden but there was quite a lot left. The salad mostly went into the polytunnel but the peppers aren’t ready to leave yet so it was a bit more crowded than I anticipated.

So they went into a couple of other beds around the plot

That done it was time to tidy up and take the weed bin home and get out of the rain!