I grew up in a big country, with a big house, with a big back yard, with a big garden, with raspberries, peas, carrots, saskatoons, lettuce, beans, rhubarb, tomatoes, and even the occasional ambitious asparagus all home-grown. Now I live in a small country, in a small(ish) flat, with no yard, and therefor, no garden, and therefor, no berries.
Well that just won't do.
There's little as satisfying as growing your own produce. And, as every city-scale farmer will attest, it all tastes so much better than the supermarket stuff.
But the waiting list to get an allotment here in Bath is up to ten years long. So. What to do?
Build an indoor garden! I've got lots of sunny windows, and lots of ambition, so this is the season for trying. The 'still alive' list is, currently, as follows:
-3 Strawberry plants
-5 Pepper plants
-2 Tomato plants
-3 pots of spinach
-1 Basil
-1 Coriander
-1 Parsley (flat leaf)
-1 Chives (that s looks wrong, but I think it's right)
-About 1000 aphids, all on the strawberries. What? Huh? These are INDOOR plants! How did the aphids find out about them? Damn well-connected aphids. It a bid to crush their imperialist strawberry-takeover attempt, I've managed to trap and rehome three lady-bugs onto the plants, but they all seem to have disappeared. Talk about ungrateful. Free all you can eat buffet, and nothing, no help at all. More on this battle as it continues.
