What about opening your door to your balcony with fresh tomatoes, chopped off the branch, maybe even to find some cucumbers? Even if you don’t have a garden, you can do organic gardening, so you can use natural products and organic production techniques to grow plants. What you need is a small ledge or balcony in front of the kitchen window, wide enough to fit your vegetable pots. The only bad news about this right now is that you’ve had the seed season. But don’t worry, you have not yet been deprived of this pleasant endeavor… You can still plant vegetable seedlings, which you will get at very cheap prices, in stylish flower pots of various sizes suitable for your balcony decoration. Most vegetables will be seasonal. However, it is possible to keep your small garden alive and get yield with different plants throughout the year. You will not be limited to tomatoes and papricas. But it is useful to select the decorative ones of the products that require a lot of labor, to provide the visuality of the garden.
Building a Vegetable Garden at your Balcony
Select the soil you will use as peat mixture, fertilizer and sterile heather soil. There is no need for nutritional supplement for the first 3-4 weeks, but then it can be supplemented with artificial fertilizers. Continue fertilizing periodically in subsequent periods. Artificial fertilizer should not be used when nutrients are needed.
Tomatoes, paprika and eggplant can be grown as seedlings if you want. Use a deeper pot as tomato is a vertical root plant. Most vegetables require plenty of sun. You can choose from wooden, plastic or clay pots. Our suggestion is that you prefer soil pots. Because, it is easier to remove the accumulated water in soil pots. The pot should be well drained and deep enough. The depth should be at least 25-30 cm. In the case of climbing plants, you should use thin but sturdy bamboo 1.5-2 m long. Fruits heavy, cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes, such as vegetables should benefit from the robustness of bamboo.
Precautions should be taken in windy areas, the most protected and bright place of the balcony or glass pots should be placed in the garden. Tightly planted vegetable seedlings can invite disease. The lengths of these seedlings are unnecessary and the plants become rickety. If aphids appear on the leaves, it is best to wipe them with soapy water or vinegar. Watering the soil as it dries is the most accurate watering technique. You can prevent many diseases by planting garlic under the plants for the vegetable garden on the balcony. By putting beer in small containers for snails, you can prevent the snail from eating your plant’s leaves.
