#11 |
For some reason, I didn't get any good pictures of the vegetable patch in full growth. It was a bit patchy, due to varying amounts of rubble under the compost! In the areas I had excavated properly, my potatoes and turnips did really well. However, most other things were growing in areas where I hadn't prepared the ground properly and so I only got tiny harvests of things like beetroot, sugar snap peas, and kale. A helpful lesson for me when I've bought my house - if the ground looks rocky/rubbly, I'm probably going to want to dig and clear once, before switching to a no-dig approach.
Here is the vegetable patch put back to rights at the end of my tenancy:
Here are the houseplants I have accumulated at my new accommodation over the last month:
Most of them are from Tesco's £2.50 foliage selection, but the heather and Ficus I picked up at Lidl in Grimsby and brought down on the train.
And some basil and fava bean shoots (like pea shoots but much more vigorous - mine look a bit sad because I've recently harvested, but I highly recommend people give them a try):
My window is essentially North facing and over a radiator, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to keep going. However, I'm going to give it a go and have various salad seeds that I will try sowing over the next couple of months. I also have two sprouting jars and am going to try sprouting various things (in small quantities, since everything is getting kept at room temperature).
Here is the vegetable patch put back to rights at the end of my tenancy:
Here are the houseplants I have accumulated at my new accommodation over the last month:
Most of them are from Tesco's £2.50 foliage selection, but the heather and Ficus I picked up at Lidl in Grimsby and brought down on the train.
And some basil and fava bean shoots (like pea shoots but much more vigorous - mine look a bit sad because I've recently harvested, but I highly recommend people give them a try):
My window is essentially North facing and over a radiator, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to keep going. However, I'm going to give it a go and have various salad seeds that I will try sowing over the next couple of months. I also have two sprouting jars and am going to try sprouting various things (in small quantities, since everything is getting kept at room temperature).
Formerly self-contained, but expanding my gardening horizons beyond pots!