What a difference a day makes (reprise)

 Now doesn't that look nice!  A glorious summer's day...

...umm... well, at least the pond/bog garden is now completely full and we've retested the 'full' level setting and drain point.  Please may we have summer back now?

Breaking rocks in the hot sun...

...I fought the law, oh no, I filled the gabions.

And it has been hot work over the last few days!  The blue snake is the conduit for the pump cable; and the black snake is the hose which will carry the water from the pump round the back into the gabions and then out through a rill back into the pond.  Once, that is, we have found someone to do the stainless steel fabrication to make the rill base.  So I guess I'd better produce a drawing or two...
You can see the bog garden is now apparently all mud but the pond water level is a bit low so we have to find more topsoil from somewhere...




If you look at this view it looks pretty much finished.  Good eh?

Alan meanwhile has completely dismantled two of the the three stable panels that formed the end stable, we hope this will provide enough framework and cladding to repair the rest of the block.

Veg update - still got some of the last of the spring cabbage; french beans going into full production mode; courgettes en route; cucumber glut; garlic harvest very disappointing.  Salad stuffs various about the place.  Strawberry harvest (now over) was excellent.  International Kidney new pots possibly the best flavour we've ever grown apart from Pink Fir Apple.

Gonna tear your playhouse down

Finally the running-around level has declined just far enough to allow time for a post - and indeed for some post-worthy activity to have occurred.
We got back from the Worlds in Zbraslavice to find that the garden was coming on apace - particularly the weeds, which I just had time to wrestle into a bit of submission prior to departing for the Club Class.  We're very pleased with how the patio flower bed is looking:

July is planned to be a 'rest month' so it's back to heavy gardening again. But first, since the pond has become crystal clear, we visited Porton Garden Centre...












and here they are in the pond.

The excavation at the far end of the pond is for the gabion run to go across; this also provides some earth to fill the bog garden which as you can see still has water visible. We're filling the gabions with all the 'reclaimed' flint we've dug out to get to this point!

And in the stableyard, things are (literally) moving.    Stable:

Unstable.
No neighbours were harmed in the removal of this stable (but it was a close-run thing).