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- Kitchen flavors in the smallest space - herbal beds on the balcony
- "Only" a balcony? Because of "only"!
- Grow herbs on balcony and terrace
- Mini raised bed
- Beetgruppe
- Location
- Refined and decorative alternatives to the bed
- window boxes
- Single flower pots
- combi pots
Herbs also thrive wonderfully in the pot
Kitchen flavors in the smallest space - herbal beds on the balcony
Herbs have been part of humanity for a long time - and today they are especially in vogue again. In order to provide yourself with the manifold aroma wonders, you do not need a large monastery garden - even a balcony can be ideally suited!
"Only" a balcony? Because of "only"!
The balcony is commonly considered a minimalist spare garden - and therefore has a somewhat ungrateful compromise character. Certainly, it does not offer as many options as a large garden, both in terms of recreation, as well as in terms of horticultural design. Nevertheless, it also has some advantages, also from the horticultural point of view, which one may not be aware of so quickly:
So if you only have a balcony or a terrace as an outdoor living space, you do not need to forego the cultivation of küchenbereichernden delicacies - straight herbs are even excellent for cultivating on the balcony and terrace - for the reasons mentioned! Because many of them do not need a lot of space and a lot of warmth - and you are certainly more willing to harvest them every day for cooking, just a stone's throw away from you ...
Grow herbs on balcony and terrace
Creating a bed is certainly not really possible on a balcony - above all, there is usually a lack of space and, of course, of the ground. If you still want to create a bed of different herbs, for example, there are the following clever alternatives:
Mini raised bed
If you build yourself a mini raised bed, you can adjust it size and shape optimally to their balcony architecture. In addition, you have all your favorite herbs in one place, which is also accessible without bending over for care and harvest. You can also offer them a deep substrate. In this respect, a balcony raised bed is particularly suitable for nutrient-requiring herb varieties such as chives and wild garlic, lovage, basil or mint.
Beetgruppe
Another idea is to put together a "bedding group" of several wooden boxes. These can all be grouped together close to a visually large bed or individually arranged. The advantage of this is that you can cultivate herbs with different location and substrate requirements separately from each other. For example, you can plant a mini chestnut bed with local herbs such as parsley, chervil or chamomile and one with Mediterranean herbs such as thyme, rosemary or oregano.
Location
At the location, the variations on the balcony and terrace are of course limited - above all, you depend on the orientation of your mini garden. Of course, the cheapest is a southern orientation. Because most herbs need a lot of sun to thrive.
Of course, the relatively small, mostly of stone material surrounded micro-space has a positive effect on a balcony or terrace to the south - just Mediterranean herbs offer the ideal conditions with plenty of warmth and protection from the weather.
Of course, if your balcony is facing north, pulling Mediterranean herbs is a bit tricky. But you can also draw here a lot less sun-needy varieties with wonderful flavors and varied uses: These include typical forest herbs such as wild garlic, woodruff or mint.
Refined and decorative alternatives to the bed
Of course, you can work differently from a functional herbal bed - and get a lot of decorative value out of your herbal culture. In general, the alternative is planting in pots - but there are many different options:
window boxes
They are the more profane and inexpensive variant. They are easy to fix on the balcony railing, lie on bückfreier height and thus act as quasi as small raised beds, only with less substrate volume. The downside is that you are almost fixed to one location - so it is important to adapt the herbal selection largely to the prevailing conditions there. In addition, balcony boxes have of course only a moderate aesthetic value.
Single flower pots
On the other hand, you can get something more decorative from a herbal culture in several flowerpots - especially if you use classic terracotta pots, perhaps in different sizes and designs. A varied placement with pots on the balcony wall, others on the floor and more on the balcony table, the small herbal oasis can relax even more. From a practical, harvest-oriented point of view, of course, you also have the full freedom of choice when making such arrangements.
combi pots
What is also very pretty and at the same time compact are combi pots. With its large main pot and attached side troughs you can cultivate different herbs in one place and still offer them different substrates - the large main pot offers itself with its pot volume for humus-needy varieties, in the side troughs, the typical Mediterranean herbs can nestle great.