As it turned out we were down there for around six hours and for three of those we had a couple of little helpers!
As Simon was with us we took advantage of a recent delivery of chippings.
A major job was weeding the fruit cage, planting the blackberry cuttings from the upper fruit cage, and then laying some chippings.
The wild-flower bed is looking good and with the majority of the comfrey removed from it there's more room for flowers etc. Note how many clematis buds there are on the clematis that was only planted last year.
We found time to sow a whole bed of onions and net it over.
All in all a productive day and we managed to weed about 90% of the beds, although it's definitely easier when we're in the middle of a prolonged dry spell.