After a week away in chilly Washington DC, the balcony seems positively quite balmy. The plants disagree. With little growth or progress, I decided I might try a bit of transplanting to help their cause.
Kale on right (85% sure):

Without too much compost reserves, I decided to reuse the ex sunflower and salad leaves containers. The [...]

After reading a lot of blogs and online articles, I’m not convinced my winter defiance plan is going to work but I have resolved to soldier on regardless. This evening I thinned out the kale and lettuce and they seem fine. 2 inches seems like a good return for a week and a bit. I [...]

OK, so maybe my efforts to Florence Nightingale the basils in the window box were slightly misguided. I decided to let my sensibility govern my stubbornness (for once) and removed all of the basil from the ground up. Leaving the roots intact adds needed nitrogen to the soil. Or so I read somewhere.
Not wanting to [...]