Greetings, Fellow Carrot and Lavender Germinators!
Saturday is usually the day that I got to do stuff that I don't have to but I want to. It's usually Grow Some Plants Day for me. Winter is a season that makes me restless in that regard. Impatient. Can't wait and so I am trying some improvised winter housings for the seeds and eventually the new shoots of who knows what. Carrots in my case. And lavender, this time.
I had no time to go to the village, nor was the weather tempting in any way. So I dedicated the day to finding some pots and soil, as well as setting up some miniature winter carrot plantations at the balcony in our urban residence.
Basically, using plastic/nylon stuff to create some greenhouse effect on a small scale.
_The remnants of the first carrot seeds pack that I opened this year. I had two runs at the village yard, already and I wrote about those in these two posts:
Greenhouse Test Number One Gone Kaboom
The New House Of The Early Carrot Seeds
Lavender next.
I just read a post by 
A mix of soil from out old urban garden and some turf mix that I bought from a flower shop
With some water sprinkled about but not too much. I don't like pouring too much water on anything. I am trying to turn everything that grows on my watch into its best desert-suited version.
Still playing with the kitchen wrap ideas.
And some chocolate boxes living their second life.
The balcony has glass covers all around but is not insulated too well. A few holes in the old glass, even. So it's still quite cold when the Sun is not shining through.
And the temperatures have been quite low these days. I am still not sure if any of my experiments shall bear any fruit vegetable.
Last year I had a plenty of carrots in June and July but no Lavender came out of the ground after a direct spreading of seeds in the soil.
This time, I am trying to change the latter.
And also, I am trying to chain a few carrot crops so that I have something to gather every couple of months or so.
Time to wait, now.
Peace and Parsley!
Yours,
Manol