Dog Roses & Preparing Ground for Tomatoes

- 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















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