In the spring, even the most inveterate city dwellerthe ancient instinct of a farmer awakens. You want to dig in the ground, breathe in the aroma of plants, pick the first berry. All this can be done without leaving your apartment. We will teach you exactly how. If you have even a small balcony, and even more so a loggia, you will not have problems with a vegetable garden at home. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage and even zucchini will not only please you with their fruits, but will also make your beautiful and cozy place to relax. You just need to approach the choice of vegetable varieties and care for them correctly.
Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes, of course.Small fruits that grow in bunches seem to be made for the balcony. In addition, they bush well. Tomatoes love the sun. If your balcony faces south and the sun is merciless, water the tomatoes only in the evenings. In damp weather, reduce watering to once a week.
Cucumbers
Their climbing stems will replace you like thisonce common bindweed on You only need a trellis, which itself will serve as a decor. Hybrid varieties of cucumbers are best suited for the balcony. This plant loves moisture and warmth. It needs to be watered more often than tomatoes. And in particularly hot weather, a container of water should definitely be near the containers with cucumber seedlings.
Pepper
Choose enough peppers for plantinga spacious container with a good hole for draining water. But the main thing is that pepper likes to "breathe". Therefore, almost every day you need to loosen the soil in which it grows.
Our opinion:— Plant sweet peppers of several colors on the balcony. This way you will kill not two, but three birds with one stone. Beautiful juicy fruits will look like bright flowers from afar. You can please your family with fresh aromatic peppers at any time. And finally, there will be no need to feed your loved ones vitamins from the pharmacy: peppers contain much more vitamin C than citrus fruits. In addition, they contain vitamin B1, folic and nicotinic acids, rutin, carotene, riboflavin (vitamin B2).
Onion and dill
Despite the apparent unpretentiousness of theseplants, remember that they do not tolerate direct sunlight. When overheated, onions and dill lose their attractiveness as greens, become lifeless, sluggish, and even dry out.
Eggplants
They love space because they have a strong root system.system. The larger the container you plant them in, the more fruits there will be. Flower pots or vases with a capacity of 3 to 10 liters are suitable for eggplants. Choose a beautiful container for eggplants, and it will become an additional decoration of the balcony interior.
Salad
Plant it only on the non-sunny side. It tolerates coolness well and does not like high temperatures. In such conditions, lettuce grows well and retains a juicy and delicate taste.
Our opinion:— Lettuce is a fast-growing plant. Having gained a lush green mass, it tends to the bolting stage. To ensure that the lettuce on your balcony is always fragrant, crispy and serves as a real decoration, leave it for a couple of weeks after the first harvest, and then plant a new one.
Potato
If you want, you can even grow it on your balconypotatoes. For this purpose, there are special double containers that allow you to periodically monitor the growth of the fruits and select the largest ones, and leave the small ones to grow. Potatoes themselves are good as a flowering plant that retains green mass for a long time.
Zucchini
Zucchini has a highly developed root system.Therefore, it is better to plant them in a deep box and water them abundantly. These plants have large bright flowers on climbing stems. During the flowering period, they will be a real decoration of your balcony.
Radish
Quite an unpretentious plant. For planting, choose seeds of early-ripening varieties. After the shoots appear, water daily. Over the summer, you can collect several harvests of radishes on the balcony.
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