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 [...]

It’s time for a bit of news from the garden! My tomato plant is flowering and has grown a lot since I got it. The peppers are looking good, but are still quite small. The newly planted basil is peeking out of the ground now. Some of the lettuce is at an edible size now [...]

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 [...]

I went to the hardware store and got some more chicken mesh… I needed more to cat-proof the bedroom windows for this summer anyway (so far, I have screens on kitchen and living room windows, but never got around to making one for the bedroom), so figured I might as well go get the netting [...]

Today I sowed stuff in my little windowsill seedling greenhouse Work has been very stressful lately, and today I went home feeling less than well; but surprisingly, filling those small pots with dirt and then planting seeds helped relax me. I also took a few pictures, however, since it’s dusk, they’re not exactly super awesome. [...]

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 [...]