Though attentions have been turning towards the new season, a rare snowfall in Ireland gives me chance to check in on some indoor growing, in particular the two basil plants from Superquinn and Lidl I have been pitting against each other.
It’s now just over ten days since the basil plants were purchased. I’ve been harvesting [...]

I am very cold tonight. And this isn’t just the usual me complaining about the guy in the office who keeps the air conditioning on too cold either (he wasn’t in today). This is really cold.
The greenhouse seems to have helped some of the plants, particularly the parsley which looks quite lively. I’m not sure [...]

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 [...]