This Summer’s Fruit and Veg
We’ve just moved house again and so again for another year everything is growing in pots or troughs. I started my chilli plants early this year, and at first they started quite well, giving me about 7 decent plants, however after repotting them they seem to have just stalled. They’ve not died but they’ve not progressed, so I think it’s down to what I repotted them with so these need redoing with some decent potting compost and hopefully they’ll wake back up again!
We had a small crop of strawberries this year. To be honest I think unless you have them in a decent sized container or the ground, you won’t tend to get a good crop of strawberries, either that or the plants are too old for a decent crop now.
At present we’ve got a cherry tomato bush growing, a gherkin/cucumber plant, a few lettuces, some radish and a few fine bean plants going. These were all started by my Dad (thanks Dad!) as I’d packed most of my garden stuff away for moving so he brought these up with him when we moved.
We’ve got a nice little back garden now, although there’s no grass, just some borders and paving slabs. However there’s a nice little suntrap so most of the plants are sitting there as they’re sheltered from the wind but get a good watering when it rains, and any sunshine that’s out during the day. We have a front garden too, but it’s quite overgrown with bushes and flowers so I doubt I’ll plant anything out there.
So I hope your fruit and veg growing is going well this year, let me know what’s on the go 
- July 24th '09
[...] Back in July I mentioned that our chilli plants had gone a bit dormant after I repotted them and moved them outside. Clearly our cold British climate is just not making them happy! Since moving them all back indoors (we now have a conservatory which is almost as good as a greenhouse!) they’ve woken up, the small plants have grown with very large leaves, and they’ve all been producing flowers. [...]