It's such a beautiful morning, there's no time to start blogging.  Into the garden!

Well, it's after 5pm now and still as lovely.  We've come in because we're going out - if you get my meaning.

More carrots, Nantes 2, sown in the big tunnel, then up to the soft fruit to clean around the gooseberries.  Two old bushes had died, so they were dispatched to the incinerator, but the rest were relieved of their couch grass neighbours.  We'd laid landscape fabric to make a weed-free path between plants some years ago.  Weed-free my elbow!  Still, the mat of couch grass was easily rolled back with a Chillington Trenching hoe.

After lunch, we lit the incinerator (is it really illegal?) and got rid of soft fruit clippings.  The ash will come in handy somewhere to add potash to soil where it's needed in the future.

As we go in and out of the potting tunnel, we have to be wary of upsetting the early Honesty plant that is already in flower behind the door.  This came from a seed that dropped onto the floor and got lost last year.  The others never did germinate.

Early Honesty