There had been a little rain over night & everything is looking lush & green. I think all the apple trees are now in blossom. I still watered the sweetpeas around the garden & tried to convince them to grow upwards.

This week’s supermarket buy was some lovely yellow bidens. I have planted them mainly in a trough. The other things I planted out today was the first batch of sunflowers. I‘ve put these in a trough which should ensure they get more or less full sunshine in the event we get some.

Today is a Bank Holiday so I was off work and spent some of it working in the Magic Garden with assistance from Ben-cat. His favourite places are on the hedgehog house & the bottom rung of the fabric troughs

Another task I started was putting copper tape around the troughs and the cold frame. I have a lot of snails & slugs in the garden and find this is as good as anything else I have used while being non-toxic to the wildlife around. The hedgehogs last year were eating the slugs but I haven’t seen much evidence of a significant effect on their population.