Grow your own windowsill garden

Now you’ve painted your lovely plant pots and left them to dry for a few hours, you’re ready to start gardening!

If you have one of our kits you’ll find three packs of seeds for the below veggies and herbs. Otherwise if you’re taking part in a workshop, you’ll have some of the below:

Cress

Sow indoors all year round. Or germinate indoors in March / April ready to move outdoors in May
With just some water and a bit of light you should start seeing it grow quite quickly.
When it reaches about 10cm high, you can chop some off to pop in your sandwiches! It will quickly regrow for an endless supply.

Chives

Sow indoors all year round. Or germinate indoors in March / April ready to move outdoors in May.

Place in a warm sunny position and you should see them growing in around a week.
When nice and tall, you can trim the chives to add to your dinner, leaving at least 5cm. The plant will continue to grow.

Radish

Sow indoors all year round. Or germinate indoors in March / April ready to move outdoors in May

Like a lot of light, will take a little longer to grown than the others.
Thin them out once they’re big enough to handle, leaving about 2.5cm between each plant.
Should be ready to harvest in about 3-4 weeks.

Prepare the soil & start sowing your seeds

Before you can sow your seeds, you’ll need to make the soil! For this, you’ll need some water and a tub (eg. Tupperware box, measuring jug or an old ice cream tub will do). We’d advise following the below steps outdoors, or put some newspaper down to avoid making too much mess.

Place the soil pellet(s) in to the tub, and add room temperature water. (About half a cup will be enough for all three soil pellets.)
As the soil absorbs the water, you’ll start to see them expanding and growing about four times taller.
Leave for up to 10 minutes to absorb all the water they need, before pouring away any excess.
The soil pellets have a fabric casing, but no need to empty the soil out. The pouch of damp soil can simply be put directly into the ceramic pot. Just loosen the top of the net fabric slightly ready for step 5.
Sprinkle your seeds evenly over the surface of the soil. Use one type of seed per pot. Lightly press down, so they go below the soil surface.
Keep the soil moist, but make sure not to over water! A nice warm sunny spot will have your veggies growing in no time.