New bulbs

I have been given half a dozen tulips ("Plant from August onwards") which need to go into the ground as soon as possible and be planted 4 inches deep, which rules out most of my available pots, especially since I still have tomatoes in seven of the biggest of them. So I decided to empty out the wildflower trough as previously planned, even though the feathery thing there was still green and growing despite having been taken indoors last week to dry out -- it was definitely the right decision to start all over again with this, since after I had cut down all the top growth the remainder came out of the pot as a single tightly-packed ball of roots with almost no earth left between them! I ended up putting the whole mass into an empty compost bag to dry out and ideally break down a bit over the next few months, and then emptying all sorts of other pots as a result in order to put their earth (and the accompanying wildly jerking worms) into the now-empty trough around the tulip bulbs.

( Swan River daisies, rudbeckias and evening primrose )

( Rocket )

( Kale and basil retained )