{"id":1497,"date":"2011-02-21T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2023-05-24T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:15:45","slug":"windowsill-kitchen-garden-update-late-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/windowsill-kitchen-garden-update-late-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Windowsill kitchen garden update: Late February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s time to get more growing on the windowsill, so my latest sowings are heat-loving plants that need relatively high temperatures to germinate and won&#8217;t mind the central heating and the South-facing location.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nov14Windowsill2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1221 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Nov14Windowsill2010\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nov14Windowsill2010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1221 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Nov14Windowsill2010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nov14Windowsill2010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nov14Windowsill2010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nov14Windowsill2010-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s only February I&#8217;m not getting ahead of myself, and am mostly growing plants that are likely to stay on the sill throughout the summer. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweet peppers (traffic light mix from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Aubergines (Black Beauty from last year, and some free mini-aubergine seeds kindly donated by @Amberlaw via the magic of twitter)<\/li>\n<li>Chilis (Cayenne and Hungarian Hot wax saved from last year, Serrano seeds pilfered from Wahaca at the weekend, and early Jalapenos where I went kerrrazy and bought some new seeds)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from the Jalapeno seeds there&#8217;s been no real outlay. I mixed some leftover peat-free compost with sand to make potting compost, and I have pots and propagators to re-use from last year. Very thrifty so far.<\/p>\n<p>Tomatoes can wait until next month, as the sunlight isn&#8217;t strong enough yet and I don&#8217;t want to end up with a load of spindly, leggy plants. There will probably be enough room for two of the cordon types if I rig up some canes and cables for them to grow up, and if they get too big for their boots then it&#8217;ll be easy enough to pinch out the ends of the vines.<\/p>\n<p>The end effect is going to be like a mini greenhouse by the summer. Can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Are you growing any food on your windowsill this Spring? Tell me all about it please.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to get more growing on the windowsill, so my latest sowings are heat-loving plants that need relatively high temperatures to germinate and won&#8217;t mind the central heating and the South-facing location. 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