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Done a spot of gardening this morning. I've repotted the lemon tree, rosemary and the last of the chilli seedlings that wasn't already in its forever pot. Watered/fed everything. Harvested the chillies that were ready. Neither variety that have fruited fully are the hot ones - Basket of Fire and Apache - both are around the 80k mark. Tried one of each and the BoF had some kick to it, but the Apache didn't.

I haven't been very good at posting here much have I? Oops. I guess it doesn't help that so many people didn't migrate over to here and have instead gone to a variety of other places. Or just shrugged at the horrors happening where they already are and continued on as normal.

Anyway, despite the TPK earlier in the year, I've now got back to a decent level of chilli plant growing - 7 happy looking plants, some of which have started to fruit. And so far, no sign of any aphids which is usually what kills off anything I've got growing. Also growing some strawberries which also seem to be doing OK - having never tried growing them before, I have no idea what to expect. I wonder if strawberries would make a good chilli sauce?

@jonnynexus I see you've wandered over to the SFF author instance

Planted 7 more seedlings this morning, bringing the total up to 24...which happens to be the size of my propagating tray. One of the new batch had 3 cotyledon which I've not had before. #gardening #chillies

My babies have their first leaves! Not their first true leaves, but the cotyledon ones that seedlings start off with. And it looks like some of the seeds that I left on the paper towel are finally getting their act together too. #gardening #chillies