So my gardening this year has an unusual drawback, which is that my decking is collapsing:
As my landlord is a useless arsehole I'm not sure when this will be fixed, it's very frustrating (and somewhat concerning for that matter).
Also, secondarily, most of my plants died over winter: even my fig tree didn't have a very good time of it, and that's a tree! Nonetheless I've bought a bunch of new plants and have planted them out: I've got a couple of cucumbers, a courgette, a tomato, an aubergine, and a pepper, and some new herbs as well (tarragon, rosemary, thyme and oregano).
Here's where things have got to anyhow and we'll see as ever how it goes...
If there's one thing that I have learned from the last few years of plant keeping it is that urban gardening is, whilst often fun, exceptionally inefficient as a way of actually producing food: in an average year I've probably spent ca 40-50EUR on plants to obtain, at a generous average estimate, 5EUR of produce. Economies of scale and better locations make a lot of difference when it comes to plant growth!