I have had a lovely day off and spent the afternoon in the Magic Garden with Ben - I did a fair amount of weeding, tidying and took an enormous amount of weed out of the pond. Even after removing a bucket full of weed there was still loads left. The valerian has seeded all over the garden now from its place by the pond but as its loved by the bees I tend to let it be.

I’m quite pleased with the progress of the cauliflowers and the broccoli at the back of the garden and my salad troughs are doing really well and so far are not slugged so may be the copper tape does work. Ben wasn’t impressed and snoozed the afternoon away