Not Pests, Now Past

After asking around on an Internet forum, searching online and painstakingly picking off all the caterpillars we could find, it turns out they aren't caterpillars at all, but friendly aphid-eating hoverfly larvae! Exactly the kind of thing I'd been wanting in the greenhouse! No wonder the aphid population had almost disappeared, not as I naively thought they naturally die off a bit towards summer. Have since found 2 or 3 among the plants and have been extra nice to them in the hope they'll encourage friends to move in.

Chillies are doing ok. All except the Bird's Eye, Peach Habanera and Rocotos are either in flower, or have tiny fruit coming. The Bulgarian Carrots are most advanced, with 1 or 2 fully formed but green chillies.

Tomatoes also doing well with an abundance of green fruit that doesn't seem to want to ripen. According to the gardening expert on the local radio, this is happening to everyone as there's not been enough sun to ripen them.

Courgettes seem happy with plenty of new fruit on its way, same with cucumbers.