No garden? Plant vegetables in flower boxes

The first thing Gizzi Erskine does when she wakes in her east London flat (apartment) is to check on her vegetables. She looks to see how much the beetroot, tomatoes, new potatoes and herbs on her balcony have grown; then she gets down to the serious business of trying new recipes in her state-of-the-art kitchen and pursuing her career as the sexiest young chef on British screens. Today she is about to harvest one of her two window-box cabbages.

“I’m a typical twentysomething,” she says. “While I aspired to a garden, I couldn’t get my head around the gardening bit.” Although she does wonders with items such as chard and wasabi on her Channel Four series Cook Yourself Thin, she had never before grown anything successfully. Besides which, she lives in an upstairs flat.

All this has now changed, and Erskine has put her name behind the National Trust’s campaign to persuade the occupants of the five million flats to use the space on their window sills – which between them adds up to 600 acres – to grow their own food.

Article: Gizzi Erskine: buy a roof terrace and grow your own
By Caroline McGhie 04 Aug 2009

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Jasmin says;

It’s a super idea, nothing new here, but great idea, nevertheless. I’ve seen beautiful flower boxes in most parts of Europe. Something about seeing gorgeous, blooming red flowers against terracotta colored walls in France or Spain just seems soooo romantic. But hey, nothing wrong with planting vibrant dark green spinach instead. They look just as awesome!

Tagged with: apartment • Channel Four series • Cook Yourself Thin • flat • Gizzi Erskine • London • vegetables • window box

Filed under: Cooking • Environmental Issues • Green • Herbs • raw food

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