Lettuce In

One of my latest things to grow on my balcony is lettuce.

It's not type that you traditional spherical-shaped lettuce. This is good because I can just pick off as many leaves as I need for a meal, while letting the rest keep growing.

Just One Day

One of the joys of growing food is seeing plants spring out of the soil. Classic case is my current experience with beans. Having planted the seed (almost jellybean size) a week before, i took this photo on Tuesday morning:

And this one on Wednesday morning (with finger for scale):

Pretty impressive for one day's growth. Let's see if any beans come from this. :)

(The debris in photo 2 is the shell of the original seed)

Tomatoes at 1 week

OK, it may not look much, but after one week, it was exciting to see the first signs of life from my potential tomato plant.

Planting Tomatoes

One of my goals for this year is to grow some food. I thought an easy start might be some of the seeds i got as promo material (for an ethical investment company).


Check out the instructions! How easy does that sound? Surely even a novice like me could do this. Well, let's see about that. This is the start.


By the way, i reckon one of the signs of being a novice is not having specific seed-raising pots. Instead i'm re-using yoghurt containers - with a few holes punched in the bottom for drainage.

Part of my "Garden"

... if you can call a couple plants on a balcony a 'garden' ;)