Buds

One of the Demon Red chillies is definitely flowering now -- in fact only a couple of weeks later than last year. The others are covered in buds, and the 'catch-up chillies' are also starting to put out buds (though as far as I remember their flowers will be much bigger, and the buds are currently tiny). They all of them need to be in bigger pots :-(

( Swan River daisies )

( alyssum, California poppies and calendulas )

Garlic

I embarked on a grand re-potting, or Mad Hatter's Potting Party, in which some plants are sacrificed (I pulled up the last of the going-to-seed rocket and used it to make magic mackerel -- using a £3 kipper rather than mackerel, elderly cauliflower rather than broccoli, and almonds rather than hazelnuts, but every bit as overwhelmingly fishy!) and all the other plants are moved up into their abandoned pots, each getting a new home one size larger. (Or, in the case of the Demon Red chillies, getting split up, with one plant going back solo into their original joint pot.)

And in the bottom of one pot I found... the garlic that died off early this summer :-)

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