Catching up

Continued to swim, weed, and potter around the garden while the heat lasted. Rainy today and the forecast's not good. But that's good for the garden and means, after tomorrow, I should be able to get down to some serious weeding. I did make a start on the raspberry patch. Filled two garden waste bags and that's just with the obvious, easy-pull stuff. Need to be more thorough.

Leading Zac's tomorrow so currently prepping. It always happens: I start off checking on something and end up following paths to lots of other things. Fascinating stuff.

Meanwhile in the garden. This is our here-one-day-gone-the-next bush, whose flowers drop off daily.

I ordered four dahlia plants from Sarah Raven. Only two of them have grown; the other two are dead. I messaged the company last week. Their standard email reply said due to high number of emails it would take a week to reply. Is that because all their plants are duff, do you think? I hope two replacements are already on their way to me.

Anyway, last time I planted dahlias the slugs completely destroyed them so I wanted to protect them this time. Husband has slug pellets but I wasn't convinced they were pet-friendly - and we have two dogs who visit us, one of whom will eat anything. So I bought this:

The wet wool pellets apparently form a surface that is unpleasant to slugs. I might have put too many down because it looks like dog vomit now.

And with the rain incoming I decided to pick some of my roses.