Cat's eye view...

Weather: hottest day of the year so far but a threat of thunder later. 26C

This week's harvest: Lettuce (Tom Thumb) Courgettes (3 tiny ones) Japanese Turnip Greens (a good handful) Rocket (many handfuls) Spinach (from the regrowth on last year's stumps 2 good portions) Lemon Balm, Mint, Basil, Chives, Artichokes (2 good sized ones)

Seeds planted in the new wooden raised slug proof (I hope) section: 1) Mizuna 2) Fennel 3) Winter Radish 'Weiner Runder Kohlschwarzer' (a cooking radish that you harvest when it is the size of a tennis ball and was really good last year) 4) Pak Choi.

All these are best sown after the longest day as before that they are apt to bolt. I haven't managed to stick to the In Tune with the Moon gardening Calendar but I notice that I sowed on a 'root' day with a waning moon on a descending orbit which should have suited the radish and the fennel but not been so good for the leafy Mizuna and Pak Choi....we shall see!