Shall I compare thee...

 

Summer seems to have finally arrived, and none too soon. I've spent most of the last two days sitting outside reading under the parasol and just enjoying the space and encouraging the bees.

My current plan is to just let the sun do its thing for the plants. Things are flowering and fruiting and I suspect, were we to be still and listen, we could hear the actual creak of things growing. They certainly seem to be making up for lost time, which is raising my hopes. 

Big winners, this week, are the courgette - flowering and making teeny squashes - and this sunflower:

Happy little sunflower

I managed, also, to get more lettuces in, and to re-pot one of the rosemary plants to shepherd it along to its new home with our neighbours. Now it's - dare I say it - too hot. I can't tell you how happy I am to say that.