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 [...]

Hi! I’ve been horribly busy lately, so haven’t had time to update; sorry! Things are happening on the balcony though; especially the lettuce is growing fast, but the tomato is also showing signs of getting its very first flower! Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been awesome here; we’re still battling light night frost some nights, and [...]

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 [...]

Today is a lovely sunny day, so I’ll definitely be going for a run later… but before that, I have an update to make here! First, the promised picture of my tiny balcony, where all the “action” will be going on, when spring really kicks in. Note that the kittens normally don’t have access to [...]

So, I seed shopped a few weeks ago, and again today when I went to get some planting soil, buckets for planting in and another sprouting box. I’m currently waiting for the planting soil to thaw so I can fill the boxes; but since it’s close to bedtime, the actual sowing won’t be done before [...]