Mellow fruitfulness

We had the first real 'autumn' morning today, misty with a heavy dew. (Or perhaps that is just the side-effect of water in the atmosphere after so long a dry spell!)

( Tomatoes )

I have barbered the thyme, which is now displaying some healthy green shoots amongst a mass of brown dead wood -- rather like the grass in the park :-p

The catch-up chillies now have really big fruit on (even bigger than last year, I think). They are 3½–4 inches long, as versus the Demon Red chillies, which are an inch to an inch and a half. (No signs of ripening on even the earliest of those yet.) And even the two smallest of the catch-up chillies, which were stuffed into a single pot together and which I really ought to have uprooted in order to re-use the pot at the stage when the larger single plants had belated fruit on them and the runts hadn't got so much as a bud, are now coming into flower, although to be honest that is pretty much a waste of resources ;-p

Now that I have managed to root a total of four strawberry runners in a variety of neigbouring pots, I have hardened my heart and pulled up the large and still apparently healthy parent plant, on the grounds that it is apparently superannuated after failing to flower :-(