Sunday, October 14, 2018

Follow up on the indoor garden

As written before, we unfortunately do not have a winter garden, where the plants can grow until spring.
We simply have to use all our windows.
It's not always nice to look at, but if you have the "skill of decoration", I'm sure you'll come up with great ideas.
Most of our ceramic pots are broken, but we manage :-)

The plants we planted I pots outside, seems to grow fine indoors. One chilli is hanging a bit, the cayenne is doing great.
The tomatoes has also suffered a bit when moved, and now it's time for a plant check up.
Don't worry if some of the branches die. As long as it's not all of them, the plants new root system in the pot, simply isn't doing fine to take care of the whole plant, so it sacrifices some branches.
A week or so after moving (depending on the sort of plant and temperature), you'll be able to see, how well the plant us doing.
In my case, I cut a whole branch from the plant. Took off the fruit that was ready, and thereby I have made sure, that the plant will focus on the well part, and not suffer from trying to save the dead part.
The cayenne was easy. I didn't have to cut off anything. The plants colour shows, that it would like some fertilizer soon.
My choice for tomatoes is always a bush tomato plant. It doesn't become very high, and fits in the windows perfectly.
And the smell of the plant... Oh I love it  :-)
The first plant is obvious doing well, I cut off a bit, nothing serious.
He second plant however, is probably not the first choise if plant at first glance.
But let's zoom in, then you'll see. The plant is in the proces of renewing itself. Look at all the little leaves at the branches. When it grows a bit bigger, I'll cut it gradually into a nice beautiful plant.
Other than that, we have a huge amount of pots with experiments of growing your own free plants the self sufficient way. So now all I need is a heated green house or a winter garden :-)
Or maybe you have some great ideas, in that case, please spill it :-)

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