Springtime is Near!

It's been awhile since I've posted here. I haven't had much exciting stuff to post about plants through the Fall and Winter. But with Spring approaching, many of my plants are springing (pun intended) into growth. Sunlight like usual isn't great in my home but perhaps the plants notice the weather change. I hope to have some interesting content to post up soon! I've started dabbling with growing sprouts. It seemed like a crop that I could very easily grow and successfully harvest in my humble, mostly sunless apartment. So far I've successfully grown one batch of alfalfa sprouts. It took approximately five days to harvest my first crop. It was a rather cool experience watching the small amount of seeds in the jar explode into a huge bunch of sprouts. It was even more exciting as I got to enjoy them in a sandwich and a salad. I'm currently growing batch number two. If the alfalfa sprout growing continues going well, I might expand into broccoli sprouts. I've never actually ate broccoli sprouts, that I've known of at least, but am willing to try. They appear to be just as easy to grow.

Anyway, look forward to more posts from me in the future. I think - hope - that I have some interesting things to share soon!

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Windowsill Radishes - Day 31 - Death of the Cotyledons

The radishes have been growing for 31 days at this point from the day I plopped the seeds into the dirt. As of day 31, I've noticed that the cotyledons, or embryonic leaves, for both plants have finally started to yellow and die. I was curious how long these would last. They've grown very large throughout the life of the plants thus far too. The radish bulbs do seem to be plumping up nicely too. I'm excited to see what they look like on the day I decide to pluck them from the dirt. I'm really curious to see if there's much more to them than meets the eyes (above the dirt in this case). Day 31 Side View Day 31 Top View Radish Close-up Good-bye Cotyledons

My Other Radish Plants

I thought for today I'd leave the windowsill radish on the windowsill for this post. For the past few days it has been pretty dull. It seems the radish root isn't getting much larger so I probably won't post about it until harvest time comes around. But for today I wanted to show some pictures of my other radish plants. These ones I have growing on my balcony. The balcony overall gets less direct sunlight and less sunlight overall than the windowsill. These plants took much longer to grow because of that. However, they have attained sizes much larger now but that may be due to the fact they are in a largish pot. They originally were planted between some green onion that I planted. These green onions were the bottoms of grocery store green onion. Here's an image when the radishes started sprouting. This was a little over a month ago. The humble beginnings As of today, I'm still waiting for the green onion to grow large enough to actually be able to eat but that's...

The Beginnings

During this age of sheltering at home, covid-19, and social distancing, gardening has risen in prestige as a pastime along with other new favorites such as baking and cooking. While I decided to start this blog now about my plants, I've been growing plants since I was young. My dad introduced me to plants when I was a kid mostly growing cacti and succulents. That love of plants has stuck with me all the way to adulthood. I unfortunately live in an urban area with little in the way of space for a full-fledged garden but I made the most of using my dining table, balcony, and any other spot that a plant can be squeezed into in my apartment. My wife likes to jokingly say she's going to throw all my plants away. Honestly there are a lot of plants in our relatively small apartment. Now for this blog I chose the title of The Capsule Garden. I wanted a title such as The Container Garden but that wasn't available. After viewing the thesaurus entry for container along with considerin...

The Capsule Garden

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