It has been a while since I mentioned my windowsill gardening endeavours and thought that an update was about due. Last weekend I harvested my first batch of red peppers I grew from seeds saved from previously eaten red peppers. It is amazing to know that you grew it yourself. It is even better if you use your own produce in your home cooked meals. This harvest sparked me on to try my hand at something else before it gets too cold.

It has been four days now and I have seen light coming from the carrot seed tub. You are going to laugh at this but I used one of those clear containers you tend to buy a leg of lamb in the supermarket. Obviously it has been cleaned properly before I used it and it is big enough to be a home for my carrots. The carrots will not be big but will do as baby carrots. I will be trying my hand later during the year at garlic, so stay tuned for that.

Ok, I realise that this update is a little sad but it shows you that you can plant food in your windowsills in London, even though there is no space. The summer of 2010 will be a green one as I will plant ten times more than this year!