Looking back...

...it wasn't all that bad actually.

Funny isn't it how we gardeners perceive things to have been so much worse than they really were...

Here are some pictures I found of 2011's successes.

A selection of chillies for my mum: Trinidad Scorpion, Fatalii, Congo Black,
Aurora, Purple Tiger, Hot Paper Lantern, Cayenne, Aji & Bih Jolokia - hot stuff!!

Aji Colorado chillies - our favourite.

Cucumbers

Parador courgettes - seeds from Annett Crane

Raspberries

One of my few potato harvests

Sunflower from a forgotten birdseed

The butterflies LOVE the globe thistles

These were thinnings, and one of my only harvests
as the rest were attacked by carrot fly :'(

...it wasn't as bad as I remember...

Big funky heavy tomatoes - unknown sort

Trinidad Scorpion - one of my few mega successes.

Can't remember the name of these, but they were delicious!

Fatalii, another satisfactory result.

Blauhilde beans - seeds from Annett Crane

Don't know if you could call this a success exactly. Harvest-wise it produced
millions of these little cucumbers, but they were :P Sour and watery.

I always have my Stargazer lilies to cheer me up. Planted these
in the greenhouse in spring 2009 and they come back just as strong
& beautiful every year.