Apartment Gardening

Joe's been aching to start reading some Harry Potter, so I traveled a coupled blocks eastward to the Cleveland Heights Public Library the other day. Excellent library, having been just recently revamped the facility has a modern, sleek feel, a user friendly self-check out system and an immense catalog of materials. Bueno. I even fished through their healthy collection of classical CD's, almost comparable to OU's own Music Library stash....

But alas, I did indeed find the Harry Potter book and also brought home a couple of magazines, CD's and....a Seinfeld DVD. Season 8. This library is GREAT!

One of the magazines that caught my eye and eventually trotted home is titled "Organic Gardening." I thought it'd be a good one to fish through and soak up while dreaming of a garden of my own. When I came across page 12, I was indeed enlightened.

Did you know....

That you can harvest your own green onions in your windowsill?? I had no idea and never heard of anyone doing it, put page 12 says you can, so I did it.


It's easy. Use green onions that have healthy while roots attached to the bulb. With a knife or scissors, remove all but a short piece of the green top for cooking. Then get a pot with drainage holes and fill it with some potting soil. Plant the entire onion, leaving the short green top above ground. Place in a sunny windowsill and water once a week or when the soil feels dry. Harvest new green shoots with scissors and continue to leave the onion in the soil. With each new growth, the onion will taste more potent. You should also dress the topsoil with some sort of a compost after each harvest to keep the soil healthy and onions tasting great.

The pics above were taken only after 1 day of planting and you can already see the growth. Even if you don't eat green onions enough to suffice your own mini garden, at the least, the little pot of scrumptious delights is an easy and cheap houseplant for you and your kitchen!