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Ask me to recommend just one vegetable crop to grow for great returns and it would have to be tomatoes. Which other crop can match it for variety? Whole catalogues are available, listing literally hundreds of different varieties of tomato seed. Every one is different and unique in some way (although not all of them are worth growing).

We are being invaded. I had not seen many harlequin ladybirds in my garden this year, but a few weeks ago I noticed that the larvae were climbing over the hedge from next door, in droves. This south-facing fence is covered with ivy and a Muehlenbeckia complexa that now threatens to engulf the fire-escape. It’s a great place to watch insects sunning themselves on the leaves.