Tomatoes and pumpkins

This is our main gate. Yurters walk through the garden to get to the shower block in the small barn. We try to keep it closed to keep out the rabbits but we don`t always succeed.

The tomatoes are doing well.

I am picking the dahlias regularly now.

As you can see, the pumpkins are growing away over the sides of the raised beds. The rate of growth is incredible due to the amount of rain we`ve had.

This is the herb garden showing rosemary, lavender, borage and poppies.

We have had great weather for two days. Yesterday we went to a mini outdoor music festival and it was good to see everyone out enjoying themselves. Today we have been to the beach and had our first swim of the year, so things are improving in time for the Olympics and our family wedding next weekend.

I can hardly believe that I`m saying this, but we have run out of room at the garden. Today it was a case of digging something out in order to get calabrese in later in the week. The next space will be when the broad beans come out. Every spare space is full of sedum and spring bedding.

We have staked the sunflowers with sturdier posts, cut some longer grass round the pond edge, trimmed back the mint for new growth to form (still enough for the Pimms) and weeded nettles, thistles and goosegrass along the fence behind the orchard.

There were several butterflies around, brought out by the warmth. I even spotted a small Meadow Brown in the butterfly garden but it was too quick for a photo. There are plenty of bees.