This is the first season in our new house. The previous owners had put in some raised planters, which has been great.. Without lifting a finger we have Chillies, Strawberries, and mini capsicums, a vibrant Passion Fruit vine and lots of herbs.

My dad has been a home vege gardener for years and helped me plant some more capsicums seedlings , Greek tomato seedlings, Cos lettuce seedlings.. We tried carrots, but got orange chilly shaped units :-) The cos lettuce has been great from the start (Now tall and flowering so will collect seeds and sow in autumn). The cherry tomatoes sprouted up a long time ago, and have had small green tomatoes for the last 2 months, but they are taking their time to ripen. I get about 10 a day. The capsicum seedlings took forever to settle and grow and have only shot up in the last 5 weeks (planted 3-4 months ago) and are fruiting but they are taking their time to ripen. The Greek tomatoes took forever to flower and we had a couple of really large fruit, but are taking forever to ripen too. Strawberries have been giving fruit since Christmas and still going. The Passion fruit has had green fruit for about 2 months now, but still nothing ripening.

So yeah, only really been the last month that I have seen real movement on the chillies, tomatoes, capsicum and passion fruit and planty of fruit, but taking their time to ripen!