Content
- 6 practical tips for creating a balcony garden
- Create and design balcony types
- Vertical gardening
- Hanging tomatoes in hanging baskets
- Pale fruit for carefree fruit enjoyment
- Mini raised bed for comfortable gardening
- Crates and boxes instead of conventional planters
- Herbs from the Euro pallet
- Tips
With a little skill even tomatoes can be grown on the balcony
6 practical tips for creating a balcony garden
Even on the smallest balcony, you can create a paradise for flowers, fruits and vegetables - which you can then harvest and nibble directly from the shrub. With our six tips, you can create even more space for the most delicious delights.
Create and design balcony types
A balcony offers very limited space, so you need to be creative when creating and designing your garden - and make a wise choice in terms of the fruit and vegetables to be grown. Basically, the rule is: Choose as compact as possible waking varieties that do not take up too much space and are still very profitable. In addition, some vegetables only provide a negligible yield in a limited space - and should therefore give way to other species. The best example is the potato grown on the balcony by some people. But lush sorts like physalis / maple and zucchini take away a lot of space or root vegetables such as carrots and parsnips provide only low yields.
Vertical gardening
Most balconies have only a small footprint and so do not offer much floor space. However, you can also use the walls to fix planters - and pull herbs, for example.
Hanging tomatoes in hanging baskets
Just like the walls, the ceiling must not be left unused: tasty hanging tomatoes and hanging strawberries thrive in hanging baskets.
Pale fruit for carefree fruit enjoyment
Those who like to eat apples, pears, cherries or plums can fall back on a slender pillar fruit tree. Beware, however: Many a resourceful supplier pulls normal fruit types in column form and calls this then "pillar fruit" - the awakening will then be evil, since these varieties naturally grow strongly. Rather go back to actual column fruit varieties whose growth has been selected for centuries in this particular way.
Mini raised bed for comfortable gardening
Those who have back problems gardening comfortably in a mini raised bed or table bed, which can be conveniently positioned on the balcony and leaves plenty of space for fresh vegetables.
Crates and boxes instead of conventional planters
Even in bakery and fruit crates stacked on top of one another, it gardeners excellently, especially as they provide the necessary drainage in this way. Stack two boxes on top of each other, but only the top one is planted. The lower one, on the other hand, serves as a catch basin for excess irrigation water.
Herbs from the Euro pallet
With the help of a Euro pallet, it is easy to garden vertically: Simply place the pallet in the vertical and use planks to build flower boxes out of the tabs. These can be beautifully planted with flowers and herbs.
Tips
Salad lovers should prefer sliced and pickled salads, as they are constantly replenishing and can be harvested on an ongoing basis.