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...

I picked up one of these windowsill greenhouses from ikea it's been great for transplanting my seedlings into once they have out grown the propagator.  Inside it this month are the Chilli's that have grown too big and one cucumber that I'd transplanted to a tetra pak to free up a cup for more Chilli's.  Hopefully once the sweet peppers have grown big enough I'll be able to place some of those in there too. The Chilli's I'm growing this year are Apache Jalapeno Twilight I mainly picked these because they were all mentioned in a book called Crops in Pots that I received for Christmas which is full of great ideas.