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		<title>Windowsill kitchen garden: Week 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 9 of Penny Golightly's Windowsill Kitchen Garden - more experiments with growing your own food indoors.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Lots of lovely green growy stuff this week. My free alfalfa seeds arrived on Friday, so I soaked them overnight, rinsed them a couple of times on Saturday, and left them draining this morning in daylight. I hope they&#8217;re easy and quick to turn into sprouts &#8211; it would be an efficient use of the remaining space, which is now at a premium.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-007.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-489 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 007" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-007-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly alfalfa" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>My other new addition is some closely-sown radish seeds to try growing them as microgreens:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-006.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-490 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 006" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-006-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly radish microgreens" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>The pot that was new last week is doing OK now &#8211; spinach at top left, rocket top right, land cress at the bottom:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-008.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-491 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 008" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-008-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly windowsill garden" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Those Salad Bowl lettuces have revived after their recent strop:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-005.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-492 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 005" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-005-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly lettuce" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>While the spring onions have improved, I think they take too long to grow and probably use up too much space that could be given over to faster or more expensive crops.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-003.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-493 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 003" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-003-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly spring onions" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>My crazy beans got even crazier. I&#8217;m going to have to cut one of them back:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-001.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-494 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 001" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-001-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly french beans" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Cucumber plants doing really well:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-004.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-495 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 004" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-004-225x300.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly cucumber" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>The biggest chore of the weekend was pricking out all the tomato plants and potting them up. They all germinated, all grew OK, and all seem to be fine in their new pots. Which, I think, is rather unusual. Here are eight of the 32 surviving plants:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-002.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-496 aligncenter" title="PennyGKWGWeek9 002" src="http://www.pennygolightly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PennyGKWGWeek9-002-300x225.jpg" alt="Penny Golightly tomato overload" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Something tells me I might have a few tomato plants to give away next month. Just a few&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Thinking about sowing anything, or buying some seedlings? What&#8217;s growing itself silly on your windowsill this week?</strong></p>
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