Pests and dealing with at least some of them

Vine weevils in two pots (did wonder why the ivy growing in the one at the front was looking unhappy - and in fact is now dead): the soil in these pots was welcomed by the hens with glee! Grubs quickly eaten and then dust baths!
Lily beetles covorting on the lilies (any other flower would have been a surprise!): caught and squished.
Slugs are loving this weather: beer traps full in just one night but many lettuces and bean leaves still devoured .... sigh. The downside of having a raised vegetable bed is that frogs and toads don't have easy access. I have also spotted that the netting I have over the purple sprouting (to protect from the large number of pigeons) is a barrier for the one toad that was in the bed getting to the other end to feast.
On the subject of the purple sprouting the Cabbage White butterfly has not been an issue even though it could, in calmer weather, get through the netting. Far to wet and windy for them to try and gain access.

Weather was better this week but ended with heavy rain and very stong winds. One of my courgette plants finally had enough of the wind, let alone the rain.

Mr B finished his work on removing the last of the concrete 'path' (a strip of concrete around the house when it was built) putting down the gravel and building two more wooden planters so I can make the most of the side wall of the house. What a star!
Will accept commissions for planters on his behalf!!

Wooden planters

Some sunshine in the garden from the low growing alpine St John's Wort at the base of one of the water butts.

Hypericum Olympicum (Alpine St John's Wort)

My main achievement this weekend was clearing out the creeping buttercups in and around the fruit cage and securing all the netting as the currants are beginning to ripen. Netting hooks made from some wire clothes hangers (have a friend who uses a dry cleaner that still uses wire hangers!).

Now to keep an eye out for those determined birds who will find a way in anyway but then not manage to get out again.

Home made hooks for netting etc