I don't like Summer...

 But the feeling is mutual, Summer doesn't like me either.  

I was bitten ten times over two days this week, one was quite nasty and the swelling is only just going down.  I've tried all sorts of things over the years that are supposed to stop you getting bitten, nothing I've tried has worked, they always get me!

But apart from not liking bugs, because they like to nibble on me, I have a serious fear of things that flutter, so butterflies, moths, dragonflies, daddy longlegs, that sort of thing, but moths in particular.  I didn't go into our back sitting room for two days a few weeks ago because there was a huge moth in there, Mark was away so my son in law kindly came to evict it.  

Hubby likes to tell people how I abandoned the car in the middle of the high street once because a moth had got through the air vent, it's true, I did, It was about 10pm and I just stopped the car and got as far away as possible.  I stopped a random stranger, who must have thought I was a complete mad woman, but he got the moth out for me.  Might sound like a funny story but I would have walked home rather than get back in that car, and in fairness it was one of those big hairy things, ugh!!

Anyway, bugs and fluttering things aside I have managed to get quite a bit done in the garden this week.  The greenhouse has had a good sort out and clean,  I've washed and organized all the pots and modular trays and taken anything I wasn't going to use to the allotment sharing shelf

It been a bit of a chore going to water the allotment every night, I was complaining to Mark when he phoned that it was too much and that I might give my share of the allotment up when the season ends, sometimes it just feels like the work out ways the reward.

But then I came back with this little harvest on Monday and Wednesday and I'm chuffed to bits that I grew this food 😀

It seems I'm not the only one that's been suffering in the heat, my sweet peas at the allotment did really well for a couple weeks and now they are on the turn, the ones at home haven't really got going at all, a very poor show this year.  The fuchsias in the window boxes are doing okay, I got them from the garden centre this year and they haven't trailed as much as the ones that I've bought from Aldi in the past although the flowers are lovely and big.  Five of the eight dahlia's I planted came up, hoping they will grow a bit now they have been moved, I bought some copper scourers which I've stretched and put around the pots.  I got Mark to move the hydrangea in the pot to the middle of the boarder, the ground is just too hard to dig out to plant anything and it fills the place nicely, I can see it from the kitchen window too now. 

These are the copper scourers I used on the dahlia pots if anyone is interested.

 No grass was growing in this shaded corner so I cut it out and planted some shade loving plants a while ago, so far they are all doing really well, even the hosta has survived, I'm putting that success down to the wool pellets I scattered around.

And a few weeks ago Aldi had one of the pots I wanted for the mind your own business plant I bought in the Spring, I was happy to find one at a reasonable price, although he does look rather stern

The temperatures have cooled a little from earlier in the week, it's still sunny and warm but without the stifling heat we had at the beginning of the week.  Showers are due here at the weekend, that will be a blessing for the garden, the ground is so dry and cracked.

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