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- Creating a garden on the balcony - clever tips for beginners
- Good planning is half the story - you should pay attention to that
- Small in growth - large in yield - recommended crops for the balcony
- So plant properly in the garden on the balcony
- Tips
Vegetables and flowers on the balcony provide garden ambience
Creating a garden on the balcony - clever tips for beginners
Home-grown fruits and vegetables, fresh herbs and fragrant flowers are not dependent on a garden. As the proud owner of a balcony, a colorful range of easy-care useful and ornamental plants is available for your own cultivation. These tips are for beginners who feel called to the balcony gardener. So you garden successfully without a garden.
Good planning is half the story - you should pay attention to that
In order to optimally use the limited space capacity, detailed planning sets the course. Sketch the balcony to scale on a sheet of paper. Measure and record free wall surfaces as well as the railing as a potential acreage. Under the slogan 'vertical gardening' the specialist trade offers from the plant sack to the raised bed in shelf form for every need the pase planter.
Small in growth - large in yield - recommended crops for the balcony
To make your debut as a balcony gardener a complete success, we recommend robust, small-awake vegetable and herb plants for the launch. The following species and varieties give your garden on the balcony a rich harvest:
Most vegetables and fruits transform the garden on the balcony into a colorful sea of blossom at its peak. Tagetes or marigolds, which at the same time repel pathogens and pests from their plant neighbors, provide for additional flower delight.
So plant properly in the garden on the balcony
Please use peat-free organic vegetable soil from specialist retailers as a substrate. To prevent waterlogging in the planter, fill the substrate with a drainage system made of potsherds, pebbles or expanded clay. Between vegetable soil and drainage, ideally place an air- and water-permeable piece of fleece so that the water-bearing layer does not become blocked.
Tips
For mineral industrial fertilizers there is no space in the garden on the balcony. By reserving a bright niche for a worm compost during the planning process, you can create your own natural fertilizer. Uncooked kitchen and plant waste is processed here by industrious micro-organisms into valuable humus to biologically fertilize vegetables, fruits and flowers.