OK, so maybe my efforts to Florence Nightingale the basils in the window box were slightly misguided. I decided to let my sensibility govern my stubbornness (for once) and removed all of the basil from the ground up. Leaving the roots intact adds needed nitrogen to the soil. Or so I read somewhere.
Not wanting to [...]

Despite many years of physics education, I feel beaten by two principles of the physical world: (i) the higher the centre of gravity of an object, the easier something will fall over and (ii) a force is proportional to the area to which it is applied. Last Saturday night (possibly Sunday morning, it was a [...]

Seeing as our summer was so cold, I figured it would be prudent to get kitted out for the impending winter. I decided that in order to enable survival for my plants over the winter month they would need some kind of protection from the frost and cold.
There is an apartment around the corner with [...]