Windowsills

Yup, so the allotment area is large. My window sill is small.

Small/large/small/large = CROWDED WINDOW





Being the genius that I is, I saw this coming, and invested last year in a nice shoe rack in wilkinsons that is doing sterling work as extra shelving but even so, things are getting silly. My heated propagator is proped up on a suitcase, I've moved all my pot plants and have 'discovered' the sheer number of them that can be planted outside. I'm eying up other possible expansion areas as well, do I need a boyfriend for example? If I moved him out, I could get an extensive shelving network....



So far I've sown -

Cauliflower

Summer purple sproating broccoli

Onions, three varieties

Leeks

Aubergines

A few early tomatoes for taking cuttings from

Early crookneck summer squash

Another squash that I forget at the moment,

Roof tops of the world unite! You've nothing to lose but your structural integrity!

Last year, when I moved to Brixton with my boyfriend, there was talk of an allotment on the housing estate I now called home.

"What?", I thought, "next to the railway tracks? In between the blocks of flats? Dead concrete for twenty miles? Surely not! You can't grow things HERE!"

But it was April and my need to plant things and disturb worms is pressing at that time of year, so I went along and had a look. And found an allotment. And I've spent the last year helping to prove that you can grow things in Central London! YAY!!

So this year I'm going to write this, probably more occasionally than I'd hope, partly as a nice record-with-pictures and partly as webpropaganda to convert others to my concrete-growing cause. *insert muahaha here*