Getting into shape

Three of us, Anna, cracker-jack gardener/first-time visitor Nancy, and to a lesser extent, myself, spent Saturday morning getting the garden into shape. We spread some of the new compost and mulch around in the beds, added many weeds to the compost pile, planted up Nancy's donated comfrey and rue in the spiral, pulled up the rest of the collards, de-wormed the couple of tomatoes that were being munched, and otherwise tried to tidy up and get things back in order. We have some pretty flowers at the moment: cosmos, nasturtium, sweet peas, squash and zucchini, pineapple sage and butterfly bush. And everything green looks lush and happy.