Chris bought me this for Christmas. I really like it. It’s got a whole glowing thing to the kitchen. I am going to mostly use it as a propagator to get seedlings going. I have grown some salad in it, but it seems a lot of work for one portion of greens. So I think I will use it in later Winter/Spring for seedlings and in autumn for seedlings or keeping herbs alive as the light goes.

Early Feb

I have got some chilli going it in it. Also some tomato seedlings – which haven’t come up yet. I had the coriander in it but it’s going slightly yellow, so I’m going to put it into the greenhouse again.

I need to get better at planning what’s in it. In theory, the light should be up at the top until something has germinated and once it has, it should be about 6cm above it (otherwise it gets leggy as it tries to reach the light). But this takes a bit of organising if you’ve got salad that’s 4 cm tall, seedlings that have come though and some that haven’t.

End of March

So far I pretty much all the seeds I have planted in here have come up. I wasn’t expecting such a good strike rate.

chilli, tomatoes, scabious, bladderwort, catchfly, Queen Anne’s lace,