How To Start A Small Balcony Garden
Be creative with the small space by using the wealth of container options different suppliers will have to offer or by.
How to start a small balcony garden. You can hang your plants or you can pile up pots and create vertical gardening. With plant and container choices you can either make a relatively low maintenance easy balcony garden or you can do a full-on farm. Its easier to learn to garden by starting small and taking on a larger garden each year even if thats only one or two new containers with each season.
Set up the right space. How Big Is Your Balcony. How Much Sun Light Does Your Balcony Get.
Wet compost and stone or terracotta pots can be surprisingly heavy. So before we get on with the right kind of plant that you can grow as a beginner in your balcony garden. WHAT SHOULD YOU GROW ON A BALCONY.
To answer just that we have put together a few tricks you could try. For a balcony kitchen garden it should get at least 6-7 hours of direct sunlight. A balcony garden can be as complicated or simple as you want.
This is the third episode in our growing food in small spaces series see Ep1 here httpsyoutubeNh0ol-eAN2U and Ep2 httpsyoutubejkWWB9O2wQ8 This e. How to make a small garden look bigger. If youre just starting your garden or if youre growing on a balcony because you want easy access to things then I would recommend starting off with your favourite herbs and a range of salad greens.
So even if you have small balcony you can still start terrace gardening. Designing gardens for balconies Once you have determined the sun aspect and weight limits you can begin to design your balcony micro-scape. Below are the steps to start a small vegetable garden on your balcony.