Windowsill kitchen garden: Week 9

April 11th, 2010 by Penny Golightly

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’re easy and quick to turn into sprouts – it would be an efficient use of the remaining space, which is now at a premium.

Penny Golightly alfalfa

My other new addition is some closely-sown radish seeds to try growing them as microgreens:

Penny Golightly radish microgreens

The pot that was new last week is doing OK now – spinach at top left, rocket top right, land cress at the bottom:

Penny Golightly windowsill garden

Those Salad Bowl lettuces have revived after their recent strop:

Penny Golightly lettuce

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.

Penny Golightly spring onions

My crazy beans got even crazier. I’m going to have to cut one of them back:

Penny Golightly french beans

Cucumber plants doing really well:

Penny Golightly cucumber

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:

Penny Golightly tomato overload

Something tells me I might have a few tomato plants to give away next month. Just a few…

Thinking about sowing anything, or buying some seedlings? What’s growing itself silly on your windowsill this week?

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