We are novices when it comes to gardening, and we don’t even actually have a garden. We decided to start this blog to document (and force us into action) our trials and errors in balcony gardening and other stuff along the way. Previous attempts at whipping our concrete ledge into shape have resulted in such highlights as stunted nonflowering lavender, dead herbs, potatoes that shot up but didn’t make more potatoes, an aphid infestation straight from a 1950s B-movie (after rescuing our tomato plants from a particularly stormy September and placing them in our lovely suntrap windows, we were surprised by the little black pellets gently dropping from the ceiling into our cornflakes)….we even managed to kill the nettles that we WANTED to grow!!

It being March, the sun cautiously peering out for more than a minute at a time, we finally summoned the courage to open the glass door and step once more onto the balcony.