One thing I have learned from gardening on my balcony is that most plants do not really like regular gale force winds.
One thing I have learned from gardening on my balcony is that most plants do not really like regular gale force winds.
Removed the #mint from the #strawberry #planter because it was choking them and was amazed how long and deep the roots were in there. I think I removed all the roots, now going to plant it in a pot isolated from everything else with a plastic bottom to prevent it from spreading.
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
I had the best Cantaloupe of my life today.
Yesterday, the little guy growing on the balcony fell off when I touched it. Put it in the fridge and cut it open today.
It was absolutely delicious. My first ever homeggrown #cantaloupe, unfortunately, it is the only one.
But hopefully I will get more soon.
First of hopefully many more cute orange tomatoes #gardening #balcony #BalconyGarden #tomatoes
Thanks to @FloraIncognita_DE I now know that the weird but pretty flower that appeared one day in one of my pots is a Blue Spiderwort that is only to be found in Middle- and South America (at least in the wild). Apparently here ppl can buy it for their garden
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.
Photos of the veg harvest from my garden - always so gorgeous!
Harvested the kangkung I was growing recently and realized that I cut off a shoot with flower buds. It is rare to find flowers on water spinach, so I rescued it and plopped the shoot into water. It has sprouted
So pretty!
There's a kind of satisfaction that you get from growing your own food. Yesterday, I harvested the water spinach from my back balcony and stir fried it. Amazing that all this food grew from seeds that barely fit a teaspoon.
I have grown parsley before, but never seen leaves this big.
They are HUGE!
They are growing in IKEA Växer Hydroponic, there is only one plant that has such big leaves. The rest are tiny.
Btw #balconygarden carrot <3 (lippy for size reference)
It's so fat I love it, I've never grown a carrot worth more than a single bite before