A large clump of Parsley Photo by S. Arrowsmith
I sowed an annuals bed and did a bit of crazy pottager planting by sowing pretty vegetables like Swiss Chard and Purple Sprouting Broccoli in between the flowers. This was going to be a splendid picture of rows of seedlings.

You will have to make do with a picture of our cat Parsley instead, because the slugs and snails have eaten 80% of the seedlings. Given that I’d stumped up £25 for Suttons seeds, and spent hours getting soil just right, gastropods are not my friends. They never were, but now I have a grudge. There will have to be a re-sowing and I have given in and bought slug pellets because brutes have just started on the Sweet Peas.

I have consoled myself by persuading my other half to buy me some pots of Cosmos. Pink and white. Very sweet.