So today I went to a cash-and-carry near where I live, and while in their veggie department remembered that I had a hole between my “curry plant” (which is by the way better known as Helichrysum italicum and has nothing to do whatsoever with the spice-mix curry except it smells and tastes a bit like [...]

Just a quick update with pics! Weather’s been grey the last couple of days, but stuff is happily sprouting! Spinach racing, lettuce beating it… and even the first 2 carrots and 1 beetroot is poking out of the ground! And it even looks like I might get lucky with the rosemary this year!

Time for a real update! As you might know, one of the biggest problems with maintaining a balcony garden – apart from lack of space – is for me getting a hold of soil. Sure, the nearest place that sells it is only 1.5km away, but you try lugging a bag of soil home without [...]

Time to start up the balcony garden again! It’s a bit of a late start this year, but to be honest, the weather has been absolute shit until recently. Now it’s awesome though; 20c days and plus degrees all night, so all is well. I really should have done a “before” picture – I spent [...]

Just a quick update – been horribly busy, but in a good way Things are still living on the balcony, but one of the tubs of carrots as well as the sweetpeas kinda died due to lack of sunlight, so I now use those tubs to prop up the other carrots and the leek tub, [...]

… because now the peppers are growing, yay! And the tiny tomatoes are tasty!

The first tiny batch of spring onions are ready and will be eaten tonight. Next year I will definitely sow them closer together; they should be able to manage that, and it’s one of those things I eat a lot of. The oregano is also huge and ready; will eat that tonight as well! Other [...]

I have no idea why I didn’t think of doing this before, but I have now added a homemade irrigation system (read: upside down soda bottles) to most of my pots. But now it’s done and should make caring for everything easier. I have had to cut off some of the “branches” on the tomato [...]

I knew the sweetpeas would grow fast; but they’re surprising even me! These last 3 days haven’t been awesome weather wise – loads of rain and not that much sun – but the peas seem to like it! The peppers and oregano is growing quite fast as well The rest of the balcony looks more [...]

Summer has finally hit Copenhagen, and I have been hanging out in the nearby huge park quite a bit – I might even get a bit of a tan this year! The fact that summer has arrived also means that I have taken the plastic off the “greenhouse”; it should be warm enough for everything [...]