The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2025!

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So I returned from hols and the chillies needed picking. All three in the window box have been returned to the greenhouse now. I'm in two minds whether to dig up the jalopeno that's (accidentally) in with the strawberries, as I prefer these. I have stripped the tomato plants and all the green fruits are in trays in the greenhouse, and I am regularly removing those that begin to ripen, to the second stage ripening in the kitchen, on the sill before freezing, ready to make another batch of passata. The courgettes are done but there were lots of beans and I might have to compost most. I will collect seed too. I plane to cut these down this week, and weed and cover the beds. There are also strawberry runners to remove and plant (they are rooted). I'm going to leave them out for winter, in the bed where I intend growing them. 

My garlic is due to be delivered this month so I need to decide where that is going too.

Just general winter prep really, I hope to get one more winter from the old carpet rectangles