In the spring, even in the most inveterate city dwellerthe ancient instinct of the farmer awakens. I would like to dig in the ground, breathe in the aroma of plants, pick the first berry. All this can be done without leaving the apartment. How exactly, we will teach you. If you are the owner of even a small balcony, and even more so a loggia, you will not have problems with a garden at home. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage and even zucchini will not only delight you with fruits, but also make yours a beautiful and cozy place to relax. You just need to correctly approach the choice of the variety of vegetables and care for them.
Tomatoes
Cherry variety, of course.Small fruits that grow in bunches, as if made for a balcony. In addition, they bush well. Tomatoes love the sun. If your balcony faces south, and the sun beats down mercilessly, water the tomatoes only in the evenings. In wet weather, reduce watering to once a week. 
Cucumbers
Their curly stems will replace you soonce widespread loach on Need only a tapestry, which in itself will serve as a decor. For the balcony, hybrid cucumber varieties are best suited. This plant loves moisture and warmth. It needs to be watered more often than tomatoes. And in especially hot weather, a container with water must certainly stand near the containers with cucumber seedlings. 
Pepper
Choose for planting pepper quite spaciousCapacity with a good hole for draining the water. But most importantly, pepper likes to "breathe". Therefore, almost every day you need to loosen the soil in which it grows. 
Our opinion: - Plant on the balcony a sweet pepper of several colors. Thus, you will kill not even two, but three birds with one stone. Beautiful juicy fruits from afar will look like bright flowers. At any time you can please the family with fresh fragrant peppers. And finally, there is no need to feed close to the vitamins from the pharmacy: there is much more vitamin C in pepper than in citrus fruits. In addition, it contains vitamin B1, folic and nicotinic acids, rutin, carotene, riboflavin (vitamin B2).
Onions and dill
For all the seeming unpretentiousness of these plants,remember that they can not stand direct sunlight. When overheated, onions and dill lose their appeal as greens, become lifeless, sluggish, until drying. 
Eggplant
They love space, because they have a powerful rootsystem. The larger the container into which you plant them, the more fruits will be. Under eggplants, flower pots or pots with a volume of 3 to 10 liters are suitable. Choose an eggplant for a beautiful container, and it will be an additional decoration of the balcony interior. 
Salad
Plant it only on a non-sunny side. He is well tolerated by the coolness and does not like high fever. In such conditions, the salad grows well and retains a juicy and delicate taste. 
Our opinion: - Salad is a rapidly growing plant. Having typed lush green mass, he aspires to the stage of arming. To have a salad on your balcony was always fragrant, crunchy and served as a real decoration, after the first harvest, leave it for another couple of weeks, and then plant a new one.
Potatoes
If desired, you can even grow a balconypotatoes. To do this, there are special double containers that allow you to periodically monitor the growth of fruits and select the largest, and leave small to grow. By itself, the potatoes are good as a flowering and long-retaining green mass plant. 
Courgettes
Zucchini have a highly developed root system.Therefore, it is better to plant them in a deep box and water abundantly. These plants are large, bright on climbing stems. At the time of flowering, they will be a real decoration of your balcony. 
Radish
Pretty unpretentious plant. For planting, choose seeds of early ripening varieties. After the emergence of sprouts water daily. Over the summer, you can collect several harvests of radish on the balcony. 
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