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Sweet peas sown in November feel like a bet against the dark, but they're one of the cheapest daft things you can do on a windowsill. Here's the loo-roll method, the honest odds on a small balcony, and why February is the payday.
Those sad 39p herb pots at the back of the supermarket aren't doomed — they're just badly housed. Here's how to triage a collapsing basil, divide a suffocated mint and turn the reduced shelf into a winter windowsill harvest.
No garden, no greenhouse, no problem. Here is how to turn a cheap net of supermarket hyacinth bulbs into a January windowsill that smells like the whole of spring — using a jam jar, a brown paper bag and a dark cupboard you probably already have.
Every November I open the biscuit tin full of seed packets and confront my spring self. Here is the honest sorting ritual that turns a shoebox of impulse buys into a balcony plan that actually fits — plus what to do with the cucamelons you will never grow again.
As November 2026 drains the daylight and the balcony slows to a crawl, I have become evangelical about one small, cheap, faintly ridiculous crop: microgreens. Here is why a few trays on the windowsill are the best winter growing decision you will make this year.