In this post I wanted to take a break from the recent tutorials to do a bit of an update on the growth on the balcony.

As you can see above the potatoes are looking good (at least the above soil portion is!). At the near end of the trough are the pentland javelins, coming in [...]

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 [...]