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 [...]

Back in May when I started this lark, I guessed it would be too late to make a large scale effort to grow my own food in 2008. It was going to be June before I’d be settled in the apartment – a quick Google confirmed my suspicion that that would be too late in [...]