2025 - What I did today

General gardening: picked a bag of Victoria plums, they don't taste too bland this year, took a cut of comfrey and stuffed it into my 200L water butt, watered the polytunnel and greenhouse then weeded a section of flower garden.

In the heat of yesterday I decided to attack the strawberry patch. I removed the net, dug out errant plants and bunged them in a bucket of water for future transplanting, dug round and tidied (titied?) the edges. Dug out masses of bindweed. That was a major achievement considering the brick hard soil. Watered the centre plants ready for sorting them out today.

More Montbretia clearance. During a "too hot to be outside" spell I found all my old flower seeds (names beginning with A) and emptied the seeds into a jar (35 different types). This motley lot will be scattered where the montbretia is/was. Because I'm an eternal optimist, I'm keeping the empty packets so that I can identify all the flowers next year. They were all at least 5 years past their sow by date but, if we don't tell them, they won't know. .