How to create a garden on the balcony

A city dweller is often deprived of the opportunity to eat truly environmentally friendly products. Studies of many scientists have shown that to date, most of the vegetables and fruits presented on the shelves can not meet the human need for vitamins and trace elements. It would seem that you can grow them at your dacha and be sure that the harvest will only benefit its owner, but the high cost of land deprives this pleasure for a significant part of the townspeople. Inventive gardeners and truck farmers still found a way out of the situation and began to organize a garden on the balcony, which provides the whole family with fresh vegetables and greens all year round.

The undoubted advantage of this design is its simplicity and compactness, allowing you to place a vegetable garden on a window and balcony even in the smallest apartments. At home, tomatoes, parsley, onions, celery, dill, cucumbers, mint, etc., grow fine and bear fruit. Such planting can be done in containers, buckets, large pots. A beginner gardener will need a small watering can, a scoop, small rakes for loosening the soil, the soil itself, in which the plants will be planted, a special grid or lashes for climbing plants and, of course, seeds or seedlings. Creating a garden on the balcony, you need to properly arrange future mini-beds in containers, depending on how much light plants need.

A separate conversation deserves a choice of seeds for this design. They should be early, unpretentious and self-pollinating. Some companies for their production offer hybrid varieties, created specifically for domestic farming. They will fit perfectly into the garden on the balcony, because they grow somewhat less than their analogues for sowing in the ground. On the glassed loggia or balcony you can plant almost all the year round. Most of the harvest will be on the south side of the house. If the balcony is high, then its part, where the plants will plant, it is necessary to wrap the film from the wind.

Its own mini garden on the balcony does not require special care, it is enough to water the plants periodically. Plants need to be planted, observing certain rules. For example, you can not grow a sweet and bitter pepper alongside, as they will dust each other and as a result, the fruits of both will be bitter. Also, branched species such as decorative peas or decorative grapes should not be grown on the sunny side, as they very quickly cover the entire surface completely and the rest of the plants will not get sun rays. All types of crops planted here should be grouped according to the method of pollination and the relation to the sun. In principle, you can put almost everything in the garden on the balcony. So, with proper care, strawberries, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes are well-fruited. Some beginning gardeners complain that after they cut off the greens, the plant dies. This may be due to improper harvesting. It should be remembered that such plantings are somewhat weaker than their analogs planted in the ground, so you need to collect the greens on a leaf, and not pull out the entire bush.

For many residents of megacities such a vegetable garden is not so much a means of obtaining environmentally friendly products, but an addition to the overall interior design of the apartment. Correctly selected plants can decorate any room and at the same time please its owners with delicious and healthy fruits all year round. Another advantage in favor of the garden on the balcony can make it light, with which the case of vegetable growing can master even a beginner. In addition, he will be loved by children who, from a young age, will be accustomed to caring and caring for wildlife.