Windowsill gardening

I’ve never been par­tic­u­larly green-fingered. In fact, that’s under­stat­ing it: I’m a plant killer.

You’ll see a few posts back (part of the ill-fated photo a day exper­i­ment… a theme?) that I had a lovely Bon­sai tree which, in only a few weeks, I man­aged to reduce to some dry brown leaves and brittle sticks. I did everything right: gave it water when I was sup­posed to, fed it a spe­cial Bon­sai food when it needed it, gave it the right amount of sun. Still, it died. It’s very pos­sible that the cat had some­thing to do with its untimely demise, but I’m pretty sure it was cursed as soon as it was picked up by me.

So maybe a Bon­sai was too tricky a plant to start off with — even the lovely old folks on Gardener’s Ques­tion Time admit to killing the odd one, right? On to some­thing a bit easier: err, vegetables.

Let’s see how long these guys last.