The mini greenhouse and outdoor garden spent most of November and December asleep, or dead, under the frost and snow. Here’s a quick look at what’s survived, often against the odds. First up, there’s one stick of Brussels left. That’s about six helpings of sprouts (nice halved and added to stir fries), and a full [...]
By rights, there shouldn’t really be anything much happening on the windowsill in the middle of November, but there’s an interesting mixture of greenhouse transfers, new sowings and late cropping going on. I picked these today, some ready to eat now and a few to ripen on for later: There are still two plum tomato [...]
Plenty of green growy things to keep you up to date with this no-space grow-your-own experiment. Throwing a few seeds around, hoping for the best, trying to remember things I’ve forgotten and learning something new almost every day. There’s still a lot growing on the windowsills, including cherry (Garden Pearl) and plum tomatoes, sweet Genovese [...]
Here’s a quick catch up for what happened with the windowsill kitchen garden last month.
It’s all been a little hectic at Golightly Towers for the past couple of weeks, so here’s a quick windowsill catch-up for you. One lovely thing that’s happened is that the garden’s going to be featured in Time Out next week, so look out for it if you’re in London and happen to wander into a [...]
Week 10 of Penny Golightly’s windowsill kitchen garden. What food’s growing well indoors, and what’s not.
Week 9 of Penny Golightly’s Windowsill Kitchen Garden – more experiments with growing your own food indoors.
I have a little confession to make. There are no radishes to look at this week because, er, they were too tasty and the tops and stems ended up in a salad on Thursday, along with all the curly cress, microleaves/salad thinnings of the salad bowl lettuce and the lanky spicy salad baby leaves. So I [...]
Week seven of the windowsill kitchen garden. Growing gourmet foods indoors for the lowest cost possible.
Week six of trying to grow all kinds of tasty foods on an inside windowsill.
Week 5 of the windowsill kitchen garden at Golightly Towers. What’s new, what’s growing, and what’s not.
The fourth week of the windowsill kitchen garden – is it easy to grow food indoors? What works and what doesn’t?
It’s been a week since I started the food garden on the inside windowsill in the kitchen. The weather has been mostly grey and overcast, but most of the plants are starting to make their presence felt. I’ve been gardening with whatever’s been lying around, some of which was reclaimed from the recycling bin, and the rest [...]
I’ve just re-planted my kitchen windowsill over the weekend and hope to get plenty of foodie goods from it over the next few weeks. Most plants do better outdoors but if you have no outside space then you can still grow yourself some tasty crops, with the added benefit of being able to sow and [...]
