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 [...]

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 [...]

I fear you no more, threat of light night frost; I got a greenhouse! My mum was lucky and got a hold of a small metal-and-plastic greenhouse (49*69*126cm) in one of the supermarkets near where she lives and brought it over. It fits perfectly on my balcony, and meant that I could plant my peppers [...]

So, today is a holiday (in fact, I’m not due back to work until Tuesday, yay!), and I decided to plant out a few things after a few days of acclimatizing the seedlings The leek get a few extra days of acclimatizing though, and the bell peppers are waiting for me to find some more [...]

It’s been a while since I have updated, but work has been very busy, so just haven’t taken the time. I have however eaten the first harvest – it was of course cress It was eaten on the 18th on salmon, smoked saddle of pork and egg salad – yum! After being eaten, I planted [...]

So, here I am, starting yet another blog. Except this one has  a specific theme, and is really mainly done for me to keep track of my current goal: Get green fingers! But since people seemed somewhat interested in my blabberings for some odd reason, I chose to blog in English instead of Danish. So, [...]