Crowdsourced Urban Gardening
I have been looking for some answers recently on the web but haven’t been able to find them – so I thought I would outsource the problem to you guys!
First of all, big thanks to Susan Gallagher for all the hard work she’s done on the new website. I think you’ll agree it’s a smashing [...]
Filed under: Vegetables
Tags:crowdsourcing, greenfly, potato, tomato
Pollination: The Poke, Shake and Leave
Flowers have started appearing on some of the plants so I had a quick Google to see if my assistance was required in reproduction.
Specifically, the plants I was interested in were the pea plants, the tomato plants and the chili plants, each of which has a number of flowers now. I was surprised to see [...]
Filed under: Vegetables
Tags:chili, pea, pollination, sage, tomato
Light Experiment with Chili Plants
In tight urban spaces one of the biggest problems is getting enough light and growing in appropriate conditions. I was concerned about the short time we have direct light for in the apartment and whether the cooking in the apartment was upsetting the plants in the living room so I tried a small experiment.
I took [...]
Filed under: Vegetables
Tags:chili, experiment, light