Everyone dreams of having their own vegetables for taste, for health, for the pleasure of gardening. And even with a balcony, it’s possible!
Which vegetable to plant on a balcony?
A plant is a living being that has very specific needs: a suitable substrate, sun and heat… more or less, water and food. With this, everything grows! Okay, you have to go a little more in detail vegetable by vegetable but keeping in mind that 95% of plants are sun plants, the exposure of your balcony is therefore determining.
On the vegetables side of the semi-shade, count on parsley, chervil, sorrel, chives, salads, radishes and other white roots. For almost all the others, a full sun exposure with heat will be welcome.
Taking care of potted plants on a balcony?
Potted plants are dependent on the gardener on eating and drinking. The substrate will be quickly emptied of its trace elements, because, and yes, the plant eats! You then have two possibilities, either to make a surfacing with a new compost, or to add adapted nutrients by means of specific fertilizers. On the watering side, if the water from the sky is lacking, there too, it is to the gardener to make up for the lack, let the soil dry between two inflows of water but empty the saucer of its stagnant water.
Combine vegetables for a good vegetable garden
Even on the balcony, good weddings work. The tomato with the basil which reinforces the taste of the fruits and the carnation of India which makes flee the aphids. The cabbage close to the mint that deters the cabbage pieride, this devastating butterfly. Salad in the shade of fennels that repel slugs. Peppers with thyme that attracts pollinating insects. Aubergine with rosemary which invites the bees. Strawberries and leeks are great with each other. Carrots with onions that repel the carrot fly. The poiré gets along very well with shallots. Beans with nasturtiums that attract aphids and when aphids are on nasturtiums, they don’t care for beans. Beans with dill that deters aphids. The courgettes with the savory, this other melliferous plant.
One of the main principles of vegetable garden weddings is not to combine two vegetables from the same family in the same pot. And for good reason: the two will draw the same trace elements, which will trigger a rapid depletion of the substrate and a certain war between the two rivals… Because with us, as with plants, the plate must be sufficiently provided!
With a few good principles and a little follow-up, your vegetables are sure to grow on the balcony. Dream what!
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