Ed's Simple Life

A few weeks ago we went to ikea and picked up some stuff for the kitchen including: Two cheap rails A couple of 10 Pack Hooks Different sized hanging containers The aim of the purchases was to create the following: Once the containers were on the wall I decided to have something growing in them, as I haven't got my hydroponic kitchen herb garden set up yet I thought that some salad greens and herbs would be best. Finding a tray to fit inside the hanging container was a bit of a mission impossible so I cut up some of those clear plastic containers that you get fruit in from the supermarket and then glue gunned them back together so that they would be a snug fit, once I did this I spray painted the outside of it black (although I don't think that this step was really necessary).  In the larger container I planted some Chives, Salad Bowl Lettuce and some Mixed Oriental Leafs, hopefully they'll come up well. In the mean t...

Again another evening trawling the internet looking at growing vegetables led me to discover that you can re-grow those spring onions that you used in your stir fry last night.  I'm assuming that they might not grow as well as the ones in the garden, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this experiment pans out. Considering it started with little to no hope I'm quite impressed with the weeks worth of growth. The spring onions I used had been in the fridge for at least 3 weeks and were looking fairly dead, all the roots on the base were brown.  I placed them in a plastic cup of water and then on with window ledge in the kitchen which faces north so doesn't get a great deal of sunlight.  A week later and below is the result (the onions were originally chopped where the white ends, all of the green is new growth).  I change the water every few days.