A lot of people ask what the easiest thing to grow in an apartment is. Well here’s my answer:  bean sprouts.

Bean sprouts growing in a sprouter
I always try to focus on efficiency and convenience when growing food. After all, if growing a food proves to be too difficult or too impractical, it is of limited [...]

It would seem for overwintering chilies, pruning is the way to go.

Chili plants – plant which was pruned on right
In an earlier post, I described how I wanted to check whether pruning my chili plants was a good or bad idea. I pruned one and left the other unattended. I wasn’t able to find any [...]

After returning from work in Toulouse for a week (it’s a hard life I know!), I was delighted to see the potatoes had grown to 15 cm in height and were ready for more compost.

As you can see, the charlotte potatoes (top) have shown much more growth than the pentland javelins (bottom). 
Just over a month [...]