Sunflowers

A new introduction to the patch this year, the sunflower bed is one of my favourites. The bees and insects love it, but as we let our bantams free-range the allotment quarter in the summer, once the seedlings are all established, they pretend they’re teeny jungle-fowl, like their ancestors, all Rambo style.

Of course, once they season’s over we’ll harvest the seed and either use it for ourselves, or it’s free bird food!