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Garden season has begun

2023-04-17

A brief overview of our gardening plans this year.

We're dialing down our gardening efforts for this year, since we hope to shift to another appartment later this year.

Regardless, after returning from Spain we've put the first seeds into the ground.

On the 10th I've planted ten gherkin seeds for pickling and by today they have all sprouted and the sprouts are already about 5cm long — these guys are fast! On the same day I also planted a bunch of Cayenne Chillis — no sign of them yet — and six tomato seeds. The tomatos have just broken surface. All these seeds are in our living room — outside is still a bit cold for them.

We also want to try to grow our own potatos this year — not an economic endeavour since all we have is a balcony, we'll try a bunch of growbags, for science — so I put a bunch of them out next to the gherkins to sprout before I put them into the growbags.

The last thing I did last weekend was to clear one clay planter box on the balcony and sowed fresh Dill seeds. They'll be the only herbs I attempt this year — not counting the basil that we have from last year.

My wife planted some Indian chilli plants midway through last week. No sign of that yet. Chillis are a bit slower.

We have a few more growbags that won't be taken up by potatos, so we are contemplating planting onions or ginger. Neither of which seems ideal: Onions to our understanding won't multiply unless you grow them to flower and collect the seeds. An onion seed will give you one onion, unlike potatoes. Ginger will grow slowly into more ginger, so we're not sure whether or not that's worth it since we're shifting.

Anyway, gardening season has started and we're both excited!

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