Hot patio action

Life's not all about the allotment. There's plenty of action on our hot (south facing) patio too. After a less than impressive start, the aubergines are growing away with aplomb in pots of pure kitchen waste compost.

The chilli peppers are planted up in the same. They're still pretty small, but no smaller than the ones the local greengrocer's - soon to be closed, along with every other shop on our thriving high street, if Storegap and succeeds in pushing through a planning application to destroy the neighbourhood with a "new foodstore for Bishopston" - is selling.
The sweet potatoes (these are Beauregard) are still in 9 inch pots in the outhouse. They'll be going out this weekend into the last available space on the plot. Three years out of three now they've been on the left hand side of the allotment. What are the chances of that, eh? [1] If I were a contestant on Deal or no Deal I'd probably attach particular significance to it and spout some mumbo jumbo about my "system". Luckily, I'm rational, and I know they've only been on the left each year because I've put them there.
The brassicas are really starting to nag for an answer to the question of where I'm going to put them. I still don't know. I may be the AllotmentBoss, but sometimes not even management have all the answers.

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[1] Assuming there's an equal probability of the plants going on the left and the right, and that my choice of where to site them each year is random - namely, that it's a stochastic process in sweet potato location space - which is broadly true as I don't include them in crop rotation plans, the answer is 1/8. Frighteningly, there are people I work with who would maintain that they'd have to go on the right next year. "I mean, tossing a coin and it coming up heads four times - next time it would have to be a tail, right?"