Seeds windowsill

Once they've grown to around 10cm you can start harvesting. Use scissors to snip the chives near the base of the plants to encourage new growth.

If you have a balcony or garden, try growing chives outside to attract bees. Species such as bumblebees and honeybees love collecting nectar from the purple flowers. Calendula is another edible flower that will brighten up your windowsill with yellow blooms.

Well known for use in skincare, the flowers add a peppery kick to salads. You should always check if unsure. Keep the soil moist and in about four weeks time, you should have some tasty pink radish to pull up and enjoy. We'd love to see what plants your growing on your windowsills.

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Cress This peppery favourite is one of the easiest vegetables to grow on your windowsill, and is perfect to add to a salad or sandwich at lunchtime. Plain cress or fine curled cress Lepidium sativum are easiest to grow.

Top tip Prefer cress with a stronger taste? Pea shoots Delicious in stir frys and salads, these little guys are a gem in the world of windowsill gardening. Place the container on a sunny windowsill, and within a few days they will start to sprout. Herbs, glorious herbs Packed with vitamins, herbs can brighten up any dish and make a plain bowl of pasta or rice come to life.

Kale Kale is one to try if you have a garden, balcony or windowbox as it grows happily outdoors in pots. Top Tip If you want slightly bigger plants, you can prick out a few of the seedlings and replant them in individual pots. Baby beetroot You can grow beetroot in pots for a harvest of tender, baby roots. Let the plants grow to 5cm and begin harvesting. Top tip Don't throw radish leaves away. They are edible and have a delicious taste similar to chard. The temperature in your potting mix or other growing medium can be 5 degrees less than the indoor temperature of the room where the seedlings are growing.

A Better Alternative. A better option for growing seedlings indoors is investing in a seedling heating mat offering bottom heat or artificial light sources such as fluorescent lights.

With the help of a thermostat, you can ensure that your seedlings receive even, constant temperatures between 70 and 75 degrees. These even soil temperatures will help the roots grow well and the bottom heating mats provide help in preventing damping off which can take place when the temperatures are too cool.

Read on to learn how. Not everyone has a good outdoor space to grow cannabis, nor is willing to invest in expensive indoor grow equipment. Meanwhile, most people will have at least one windowsill in their apartment.

Cannabis is a hardy plant that can grow in a variety of different conditions, even on a windowsill. Cannabis plants need a lot of light. Wherever possible, try to meet those conditions either artificially using air conditioning and humidifiers, or naturally by growing at a suitable time of year. Remember, in nature, cannabis grows from spring when seeds germinate till the beginning of fall or winter when the plants naturally wither and die. Unlike photoperiodic strains, autoflowers do not flower based on a changing light cycle.

Instead, they start flowering automatically once they reach a certain age. Stay away from growing tall sativas as they require far too much room to grow properly. To do this, place the seeds between a few sheets of moist paper towel and keep them between two plates in a dark cupboard. For seedlings, you can just use a clear plastic cup as a pot, which will also allow you to keep a good eye on the plant's roots as they grow.

Make sure to puncture some small holes in the bottom of the cup for drainage, and fill it with regular moist soil. Make a roughly 1cm-deep hole, put your seed inside, and cover it.

Now, place your seedling on your windowsill. It should sprout out of the soil within a few days. Cannabis seedlings are very fragile.

They like warm, humid environments, so it's a good idea to cover your seedling with a plastic bag and spray some water inside every few days to keep things humid. Just be careful not to overdo this as too much moisture can make for a breeding ground of bacteria and fungi.