Exciting, slightly nerve-wracking: pictures from the garden

It's a great time of year - although also slightly fraught. It's when the plants you've seen grow from seed start to do what they're meant to do and produce their fruits. It's also when things can start to go wrong! Unfortunately one of the types of trailing tomatoes we planted up in hanging baskets appears to have picked up some kind of virus that's turning the leaves yellow-y and generally making them look a bit poorly. They're still trying to produce tomatoes, but whether or not they'll come to anything is decidedly iffy. It's just one variety affected (the golden pearl), so fingers crossed for everything else...

On a happier note, I already blogged about the delicious strawberries that are starting to get to eating ripeness and we've already used the first loganberries. And, fingers crossed, it looks like everything else is doing quite well. We should have lots of tomatoes (pic 1), stacks of chillies (pic 2) & a nice crop of plums (pic 3). Nearly decision time as to how we use them and preserve them for use through the autumn and winter.