Jobs being done, when it’s not raining for a change – pruning autumn raspberries, continuing work on the hügelkultur bed, adding straw to the strawberry beds, placing weed suppressing mats around the young gooseberry bushes and “trying” to remove nettle roots entangled in the worcesterberry bushes. The bushes have been severely pruned in the hope they may regenerate, after no fruit last year and an inundation of gooseberry sawfly caterpillars.

In the polys, lettuces are flourishing and broad beans are well in flower.