2025 - What I did today

No playing in the garden after work yesterday due to weather. Looking very much the same for today. But I will be harvesting for tea later.

Weeding, apple thinning, GH tidying.

Digging over where the early potatoes were to remove as much couch grass as I can find and, as it had compost added for the potatoes I'll be planting out onions there in the autumn. I need to get them sown in the next week or 2. Probably sow them tomorrow just in case there is a problem with the seeds so I've time to get some more - Senshyu Yellow variety. The soil though is bone dry and desperately needs rain. Even the weeds are struggling. I've not mowed the grass for weeks now and a field a local farmer would cut for silage look OK to play football on the grass has grown that little this year.

Cut the grass yesterday most of it looks like straw with a few patches of 6inch high green areas it does look better now its all the same height.

Cut back the Mints, lemon balm and Pineapple sage that were creeping across the path - took cuttings of the Pineapple sage. Chopped up the herbs and dumped them under an apple tree - where they can root, if they wish.
Pulled up lots of montbretia and Enchanter's Nightshade - I hate the little sticky seeds on that plant. I was covered with them once I'd finished.