for any work down at my plot.

The grassy areas need strimming, though I did manage to do a little weeding before I collapsed with heat stroke while trying to avoid falling through the huge cracks that have appeared in my heavy clay soil through lack of rain..  Lol. Funny how this heat hasn’t stopped the weeds !

I have some casualties too.. My lettuce has bolted. There were only four left which succumbed to the heat over the weekend despite my efforts to try and shade them. Some of my second sowing of peas has pea moth – not sure how that happened as I usually manage to avoid them, it’s never been a problem in the past.. Also.. My plot has been invaded by black ants, zillions of the little sods..  I can cope with black fly even slugs but ants crawling over my veg really gives me the willies. My plot is one big ant hill at the moment..

And on a brighter note. Ta Da..

I have finally managed to grow fennel. Third time lucky!

This is colossus  a bolt resistant variety from real seeds..

Yep.. I would agree with that, its doing really well despite the heat and lack of rain were having at the moment. I’m not counting the two minutes of drizzle we had yesterday..

I started these off in pots in April then planted out in June. In the past I sowed direct as per instructions and got nothing, zilch..