I’ve been getting a few questions about my garden and how I can be growing everything from traditional herbs to potatoes all indoors. Please keep in mind that some of my planting vessels are re-purposed espresso cups and cereal bowls and very few vessels are large. Nevertheless, I am very lucky to live in an old Victorian with lots of nooks and crannies and windows all around. Outside the kitchen, in the hallway, is a table tucked against a window. And upon that table you will currently find …
Enter the kitchen and one of the very first things you will see is a small bookcase where cookbooks and old recipes are kept on the shelves. On the narrow top, are the following edible parts …
And just ahead, not far, is a small table that receives plenty of light. And so upon its right-hand corner there are stacked the following herbs and sprouts …
Now to the right of the table is a sizeable floor speaker with a sturdy wooden case. That’s right. I usurped a portion of the top and there you will find …
And, last but not least, in this kitchen there is a bay of windows. The curvature is such that the area was just big enough for a certain person to tuck his handmade wooden carpenter’s workbench. I held myself in check and only borrowed a left-hand corner where there now sits …
There are other plants around whose images I like to share with you, but these are the edible ones, close to and in the kitchen, always reaching for the light. I made these guides for the resident chef so that he knows what he is snipping at but I also made them for myself as a calm way to end the day. Enjoy. 😉
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