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Peas Sir, Can I Have Some More?

July 7, 2009

“Harvest” sounds a tad dramatic for what we did this week considering the number of peas we actually accumulated but here goes…

At the start of the season I set out to do some investigation into how efficient various plants can be grown in tight spaces, often with limited light and heat. We have seen good growth [...]

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Pollination: The Poke, Shake and Leave

June 3, 2009

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 [...]

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Gallery of Growth on Balcony

May 10, 2009

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 [...]

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