Bulgarian Village Garden

 - Secured cucumbers. Lost 2 - probably 3 - crocodile & 1 Satsuki Midori - Replenished spring onions. New growth on ones planted last week - Handful of rocket - Lots of strawberries, almost reddening - Enormous flower on wildside rose - Deadheaded lawn roses, all flowering Planting: - Rhododendron. From pot. Lawn border between carnations.

- New bird: Greenfinch Planting: - Tomatoes (ours from last year): 2 rows, 11 plants per row Repotting: - Tomatoes (ours from last year): 3 windowboxes, 10 plants per box - Wide Leaf Basil: 7 into flowerpot - Broad Leaf Garlic: 14 into 1 windowbox - Jalapeño Chillis: 14 into 1 windowbox  - Indestructible Chillies (8) & Habanero Chillies (6): into 1 windowbox - Peppers: 18 into 1 windowbox - Black капия Pepper (1) & Yellow сиврия (4) & 3 Edged Pepper (7): into 1 windowbox

- Dog Roses out everywhere - One of the dogs has returned - Peonies dropping petals - White Rose bush in flower - popular with rose chafer beetles - Sweet Mock Orange even stronger - First handful of spinach & rocket leaves - Two courgettes coming - Trimmed windowboxes - Propped up ailing cucumbers - Dug troughs & assembled poles & wire for 2 rows of tomatoes (13 in each row) - Cut down 6 bags of kindling - Cat recovered

- Elder, Dog Roses & Black Locust - Moved office pots outside onto balcony - Moved Sofia tomatoes into office - Planted replacement onions - Unidentified lawn bird

- Update after 12 days away and a lot of rain. - Brought back the batch of Sofia tomatoes grown from last year's seeds - Tied up 7 sets of peonies using bamboo poles - Tied up gate rose (badly) - Tied back blackberries/raspberries - Gave more space to succulents - Weeding & digging over ground to prepare for tomato planting - Mowed lawn