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That is perfect, @Busy-Lizzie! Apart from carrot, which I have never successfully grown, you have pretty much listed what I grow for the kitchen! Well, also peas, beans, courgettes, and chillies (which are in a lovely cocoon of their own) - but I can grow them in the lower garden! Onwards and...

Because the people agitating for Biden to go are the ones who want Trump to stay,

There is indeed! It’s full of rubble and sharp sand so I’m currently pulling up marestail roots and flittering out large chunks of concrete, slate and glass.It’s clay soil, so I imagine the sharp sand might actually help with drainage? My mum brought me home a forsythia this week, any other...

Dahlias will take the heat but will need lots of water and feed..

I'm starting to wonder about the actual viability of some of the seeds being sold, never had problems with onions before, but one lot came up as usual the other variety no show on two sowings, same compost same temperature, both from Suttons.

Thanks for all your replies. After watching various videos I've decided to go ahead and plant them and keep my fingers crossed.

There is a photo of the area set back.

Fed to laying hens for protein. Despite 'free range' , many hens choose not to leave their shed and the range does not provide sufficient without supplement

Hiand looking great and very neat and tidy . I also bought some grasses from Parker’s and the word small is the wrong word to use lol .. mine have been planted in Malaysian huge pots, the roots were huge so they will soon get going.Spruce

That looks fine That's about the height that I reduce my Verbena bonariensis to. Your Perovskia shouldn't be tempting for slugs anyway because of the strongly scented, tough, silvery foliage. They don't touch my Salvia Caradonna which is in the same family (mint).