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I repotted my chilis today, they had outgrown their one quart pots. I planted three of them in large pots and left them outside, we'll see how they do. Six of them went in about 2½ quarts of compost and are still sitting inside. My Apache peppers had started flowering already, and I even have...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/900111/how-to-grow-a-blueberry-bush Check that thread out for some discussion on the subject.

I don't know if I'll be pruning it, it shouldn't grow that big. Our climate really doesn't support that big plum trees, short summers and long winters offer little time to grow. If I do, I'll cut it early in spring, probably. But the variety is a local one, and should do without pruning, except...

No, we bought it in a small pot. But it isn't very tree-like yet. This pic is taken about a month ago.

My plum tree has finally started shooting out leaves! In a few years, we might get our first plum (we only planted it last fall). It's a sad looking stick in the ground still, but given time, it might grow into a productive tree.

I just go with tap water. That's not an option everywhere though. We're no longer on Helsinki water after we moved away from there, but I've read several test reports on the water there. In comparison to Evian, it always tests cleaner. And the stuff we get out here isn't bad either, I never need...

Here we pay a deposit for each drink container. Aluminum cans are 15 cents, small glass bottles 10 cents, ½ liter soda bottles are 20 cents, and 1½ liter bottles are 40 cents, and wine bottles 10 cents. Finland has almost a 100% return rate on beverage containers, the highest rate in the world...

Yeah, I didn't have as much of a problem with the bottle as the better half did. But I have to agree with her, it wasn't the prettiest thing standing in our kitchen... Here the soda bottles are very much not free, each one is worth 40 cents. Doesn't sound like much, but they pretty quickly end...

Sometime in the future, maybe a month from now when the weather has finally warmed up so that nights won't dip much below 50, I'm going to transfer the tomatoes and peppers out, and while I was thinking of planting them in the ground at first, I've decided I'm going to go with pots anyway. I'm...

And here's an idea I'm playing around with at the moment, it's sort of a passive hybrid hydroponic-aeroponic growth medium free growing system. Basically I cut a round piece of plastic from a butter box lid, made a hole in the middle, tied together four strings and left them dangling down from...

I made one like this, same design but with the added wick. It worked very well, but it was "too ugly to be in the house" so I got rid of it, and tried another design, pictured below the first one.

Yeah, as long as you keep the water level high enough to keep the cork in water, but low enough to not reach above the thinnest part of the neck, I think it should work nicely. Adding a string wick to the cork and somehow working it into the soil a bit could make it even better, then you...

I use a cheapo paracord string as a wick. The way it differs from real paracord is that the core is not woven, so it actually wicks better than the real stuff would. When changing pots, I just pull the cord out, so no need to worry about decomposing. You can also fabricate a wicking pot out of a...

Could you be overwatering? It's easy to do. I think that happened to mine last year, and if you're willing to try it it, I would really recommend the wick watering. Here's how I built my system. The light here is too high, and it's a 24W light. It's enough for the beginning, but once...

I had great success with the pepper plants this year, so far at least. I started them in peat pots and transplanted them into plastic pots once they got their first true leaves. Every since then they've been on a wick watering system, that has kept the moisture at an optimal level. I also don't...

The thick plastic things usually work pretty well. The one I'm using now is a metal one, the brand is Jamie Oliver. It's a bit crap, but it looks good. I mostly water with the hose though.

With wounds it's the sugar content.

Cityfarm, to post a photo, click on the button above the text editing window that shows a landscape (left of the piece of film), the wizard should be pretty straight forward from there.

Haha, you found one on Finnish stuff, I tip my hat to you. (I don't actually usually wear hats, but the expression seemed suitable.)

Tomato seeds went in 4 weeks ago today. I have run out of height on the light support, so I'm going to have to repot them ASAP and rig up something horribly ugly to support the lights higher than what these do. Even though the lights don't produce much heat, the leaves are starting to brown...