I like having calendula and nasturtium plants in the vegetable garden. My companion planting guide tells me they excel at bad bug control and, besides, it looks pretty.

But you can have too much of a good thing.

Today The Engineer and I worked on discovering what, if anything, had survived their uncontrolled rampage while our backs were turned.

It wasn’t as bad as it looked. The garlic has now been harvested and is drying in the glasshouse, we unearthed some brassicas, silverbeet and squash, continued planting out more seedlings

and the goats were more than happy to deal with the weeds.