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#balconygarden

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When I first moved in, this balcony had zero plants except for a few scraggly plants called "mother-in-law's tongue". 2 years later and my little balcony garden has blooms and vegetables galore 😁.

The veges feed me, the flowers make me happy. And it actually smells nice at some parts of the year thanks to them!

Replanted the tongues and somehow managed to cultivate 5 more of them from that one shoot 🤣

last year, I had to hand pollinate all my cucumber plants because I couldn't find any bees to do the job.


But this year, I have a lot of #bees of different types, even a chunky bumble bee visiting my #balcony every day and seems busy pollinating my cucumber and pepper plants.

I don't know what is the difference between this year and last year, but I am really enjoying it and already have some 20 baby #cucumbers on one plant.

Some banana peels, egg shells, garden items, coffee grinds and used tea leaves to be mixed into a rapid compost mix


Going to start a New compost today, using the soil from last year tomato soil bag that was replaced into a large pot and let it sit until June or July when I replant some of the tomato cuttings.

Since I started doing this, I have almost 0 organic food waste and already given away 2x15L compost to a friend who starting a vegetable garden (helped with planning and purchase of material plus a few seedlings and some old seeds.

Using old fashioned way of saving tomato seeds.


Letting them ferment for a couple of days and then dry them up for future use.

I usually save them on paper towels, but it takes too much. I don't think I will ever use all of them, but my addiction to save seeds can't be stopped.