Bulgarian Village Garden

- New birds: Goldfinch & Penduline-tit - Beetroot: small - Carrot: very small - Turnip: non-existent

- Assembled & tried out new mower: Black + Decker, battery powered. Each charge lasts about 15 mins. - Mowed lawn & wildside (in 2 bursts) - Weeded garage/path gap - Indestructible Chillies almost ready - 3 courgettes (over 2 days) - 12 cucumbers (over 2 days)

- 6 cucumbers - New Plant: Pelargonium - Cucumbers: disentangled & tied up - Batch 1 Tomatoes: tied up & колтуча-ed. Tomatoes developing - Batch 2 Tomatoes: tied up & колтуча-ed. - Lots of roses out - Tied up & tidied raspberries/blackberries. Blackberries almost ready - Made another batch of nettle fertiliser - RIP pigeon (cat)

- New birds: Blue Tit & Greenfinch - Rats - 4 courgettes - 16 cucumbers - Cut:   - Orange Day Lily stems   - Forsythia   - Common Soapwort   - Box Elder   - Plum tree saplings   - Dead raspberry/blackberry branches - Tied up raspberry/blackberry - Trimmed white rose bush - Acquired a pigeon

- 6 enormous cucumbers - Weeded everything - Cut off male courgette flowers - Alpine Strawberries all but gone - Disentangled & tied up cucumbers - Added fifth line of wire to batch 1 tomatoes. Lots developing fruit - Колтуча-ed batch 1 & 2 tomatoes

- 6 cucumbers - Mowed lawn for first time since 01 June - Broke mower - Trimmed rose edge

Over three days. Birdsong picked up and identified using the Merlin Bird ID app. Great Tit Song Thrush Golden Oriole Syrian Woodpecker Black Redstart Little Owl Red-rumped Swallow Barn Swallow Blackbird House Sparrow Tree Sparrow House-martin White Stork Collared Dove Hawfinch European Bee-eater Common Buzzard Jay Jackdaw Common Swift Chaffinch

- Moved Aloe Vera to terrace corner - Moved Basil & Chives to terrace - Tiny sproutlings in passion flower pots - One white rose on bush - Weeded herb garden - Disentangled & tied up cucumbers - Added 4th wire level to batch 1 tomatoes, tied up & колтуч-ed where necessary - Couple of tomatoes beginning to form Planting: - Balm (4 seedlings in 0.3 row, herb garden)