Adding seed-grown perennials to the rough, sloping site at the back of the house. This was a no man’s land of couch grass, docks and bindweed but nowadays it's a pleasant, informal bank full of flowers. To gaura, and sweet rocket we’re now adding and

My garden and allotment were more or less weed free but the weeds are beginning to come back as I knew they would. Not many yet but I’ve been trying to remove them while they’re small.

June was mostly about planting; it was the middle of the month before it was finished. I got all the tender veg in, including beans, marrows, courgettes, squashes and sweetcorn. Also dahlias, bedding and the annuals I grow for cutting and showing were planted, as well as the sweet peas. I grow these on the same framework of canes as the runner beans.

I’ve also planted some spare runner beans at school on the beds that the children used to use. The tomatoes in the polytunnel at school are growing well. I keep going up there to tie them up and remove the sideshoots. I gave them their first feed in mid-June.

All my containers have been replanted with geraniums and other bedding plants. I’ve planted up 36 hanging baskets, 12 for me and the rest for friends and neighbours. There are also four communal containers on the allotments in front of the cabin where we have our meetings.

I’ve weeded and planted a border alongside the visitor centre at Blackleach Country Park, which I look after. As you can see, the first two weeks of June are my two busiest weeks of the year!

Now all the main planting is finished I've got more time to attend to the plants in the greenhouses, which get a bit neglected when I’m busy planting. The plants I’m referring to are fuchsia, geraniums, streptocarpus, begonias and several more.

I've seven cold frames, which I use to harden off tender plants in spring. Four of them are dismantled and put away until next year. I’ve taken the other three to the allotment to grow carrots in. When the carrots start to grow I cover the frames with mesh to keep out the carrot flies. I sow the seeds into bore holes filled with a fine compost that I’ve mixed.

The passion for gardening during this lockdown period has allowed my imagination and creative streak to come to the fore. I noticed my garden ornaments had deteriorated over time and

I'm planting out my annuals

The border alongside the back lawn is planted Car port baskets

All planting is done under the car port

Two communal allotment tubs