Phacelia.

Another trip into Penicuik, this time to deliver the year’s crop of honey to the monthly market on The Lost Garden stall (see extra). I sell to the stall for £3 a pound and insist that they don’t charge less than £6 for it; I don’t believe in under-selling our produce even though I keep bees for fun and not for the honey. I assume that I could strike a harder bargain since I offered these terms and they were accepted without question, but that’s not what the garden project is about.
 
The arc of plants that give the lead-in line to the Blip is the dying phacelia just outside the garden wall, there are still one or two late flowers on it though they won't produce seed now; it is the plant that gave me the unexpected 32 lbs. of honey late in the season. At £6 a jar that would give a gross income of £192. This year I have purchased 115 kg of food for the bees, in the form of sugar, at a cost of £71.55, and there have been other expenses. While it is true that this year has not been a good year: weather has been poor, mistakes have been made, and so on, it does give justification for me setting the sale price where it is.