But wait, there's more!

I went back to the garden centre today, to buy another pot, more soil, etc etc. It turned out on further inspection that the chillies I'd given up for lost have not in fact completely died; they merely suffered during the winter, and to my surprise have regenerated this spring.

So, now I have three pots; one for peas, one for tomatoes, one for the chillies which will hopefully produce useful volumes this year. Plus stakes, vegetable growing potting mix (mostly appears to contain sheep poo) and so on. I also bought no less than THREE different types of insect and bug killers, so that I can hopefully vanquish whichever little buggers decimated the herbs that previously inhabited the newly planted tomato pot. Along with plant food, so hopefully they actually grow and produce useful amounts of edible things!

I also bought nemesias for the front garden. They're lovely little bell-like flowers that I remember having in profusion ...

Oh god, I'm turning into my mother.

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