Earlier pond planting

Juncus Effusus Spiralis - Corkscrew Rush (marginal)
Primula Denticulata - Drumstick Primula (pondside)
Scirpus Isolepsis - bristle Club Rush (shallow / oxygenating)
Iris Kaempferi / Ensata (pondside)
Ranunculus Lingua Grandiflora - Great Spearwort (marginal)

Also:

Blackcurrant - Ben Tirran
Mid season, heavy crop, good flavour
Prune out 25% of stems yearly

Weekend

Visited Blooms & World of Water

Pond:

Ranunculus Lingua Grandiflora - Great Spearwort
Juncus Effusus Spiralis - Corkscrew Rush
Iris Kaempferi/Ensata - Japanese Clematis Flowered Iris
- planted in a curved basket on the shelf with the other curved baskets

Scirpus Isolepsis - Bristle Club Rush
- at the shallow end

plus something free-floating with bladders

Primula Denticulata - Drumstick Primula
- above the waterfall, between the Fennel and Lily

Added some Green Away algae treatment - can be repeated after 5 days if necessary.

Ran filter cleaning cycle - made pump run MUCH better - do this every week as far as is possible.


Garden:

General maintenance.

Blackcurrant Ben Tirran
- planted in a large pot in the middle of the raised beds

Sowed mixed salad leaves and Raab in left-hand bed

Cut rhubarb - 670g
Emptied another potato tub - 1.5kg in this one
Picked first runner beans - 220g

The growing tip has broken off the pumpkin :-(
That's probably the end of it, but leave it awhile and see what happens.

Turnips

Picked the rest of the turnips - another 500g.
When prepared for freezing with what is left of the others, there's 700g.

More rhubarb needs cutting.

Outdoor tomatoes are coming along - being picked in dribs & drabs so not being weighed...

Photos

Before-and-after photos of the pond, taken from almost the same angle:






And an almost-aerial overview of the garden as a whole:

Harvesting

Picked 500g of turnips and around 240g of gooseberries.
That's all the gooseberries, but there are still some turnips in the ground.
Picked almost the last of the tayberries. Check the total weight picked when they are all done.

Pond - day 6

Removed bucket and plants, leaving all fish behind.
4 goldfish which survive of the original 10, plus 5 smaller green/brown ones which we definitely didn't put in there.
Washed and added gravel.
Planted a few of the saved plants in 2 curved baskets and positioned them along the ledge at the right-front corner. There is room for another one there.
Placed a large slate rock at the shallow left side, as a wildlife escape route.
Weeded all round, and added more nice stones.
Carted all the rubbish to the tip, and tidied up.

Done!

Pond - day 5

Homebase - got extra required brick and another half-price bag of nice stones

Trimmed right-hand edge of liner
Edged with slate pieces
Cemented nice stones along bricks

All fish have survived

Still to do:
Planting
Remove bucket
Gravel bottom