Another busy saturday out in the garden! During the week we noticed some mini courgettes growing and lots of flowers on the mangetout which are climbing up the netting well. The strawberry plants have sent out lots of new leaves and some more flowers so we are hoping for a second crop after the current ones have ripened. 

On saturday afternoon we headed out into the garden and got to work. Matt put 9 of the tomato plants into growbags as well as some of the pepper plants from the greenhouse and has made a prototype watering device from an old squash bottle. Another sweetcorn plant was ready to go into the soil aswell and we have taken the herbs out of the greenhouse as the coriander and thyme have started to flower.

Whilst Matt was busy with the plants I put on an old pair of gloves and de-weeded the soil bed and gravel strip. The gravel had become seriously overgrown with weeds despite a black protector sheet underneath the stones. It was satisfying work although I found two slugs, one of which I almost picked up along with some weeds so Matt fed them to a frog that was hiding next to the fence! We also discovered some baby caterpillars munching on our cauliflower plants and a bigger, fatter green one and lots of eggs on a couple of the plants! We picked up the caterpillars we could see and put them out the front door for the birds and have brushed off what we could of the eggs so hopefully the trauma of that will stop them hatching. We will see what happens over the next few days but might need to get some form of pest control.