Washing
After careful humming and hawing over insecticides, we decided to take the nobler course of action and bathe the insects off our plants.
A few days ago I noticed that some of the plants inside had discolouration on the leaves:
After putting this out to the crowds on Twitter, I got a number of hepful replies. In [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]