Last minute veggie gardening before a week of showers

Mucked about in the garden, trying to get last minute tasks done. Put newspaper on the compost - need to put down cardboard but ran out of time - it needs the tape taken off it.

Spread out and coffee grounds between the beds (to be covered with cardboard), straw as mulch in the plots and around the beds on the edge of the back garden. Trying to get the soil to regenerate. Also spread handfuls of Thrive around the yard as well.

It still looks dire, but perhaps a smidge less so.

At least the flowers are still growing - tiny bit of colour though they are.

Taffy supervising the action from her seat on the car, in the sun.

I believe that once things grow and are greened up, the lattice is covered with creepers, the patio finished painting, and the right lattice put up (get rid of the green thing), it will all look much better.