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The Easiest Food to Grow: Bean Sprouts

April 30, 2009

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 [...]

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The Chili Pruning Experiment: Conclusion

April 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Seedlings: Tomatoes, Broccoli, Chilis and Lettuce 9 days in

February 11, 2009

Taking stock of the seeds I planted 9 days ago, already there are varying degrees of progress.

I had a bit of a rookie scare with white mold (which I now know was in fact a fungus) on the lettuce seedlings but thanks to the folks over at the GardenWeb forums my concerns were allayed.
Here is [...]

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