Growing TONS of FOOD in a Super Small Garden – Balcony Container Garden Tour
Welcome to our small balcony food garden! We’ve been growing and harvesting a surprising amount of food from our small container garden and we’ve been able to eat from it all summer long. Probably partly because we have so many containers now, but also because we’ve been doing succession planting, where we plant new crops once the previous one is not producing much anymore. So we’ve always got some seedlings on the go, and we’ve always got something fresh to eat.
We are growing some of our favourite vegetables, including three types of cherry tomatoes, two types of sugar snap peas, as well as kale, beets, and cucumbers, and we are also growing jalapeño peppers and purple beans for the first time!
Three of the herbs we use all summer long are parsley, basil and mint, so we’ve got lots of those growing. We also had cilantro and dill but they went to seed once the weather got hot so we’re going to plant more when the weather cools down.
The balcony is a good size for us, but we’ve got some seating and a storage box for cushions on one side, so the garden as it is right now is about 45 square feet or 4 square meters. But we love having plants to take care of and fresh food to eat right outside our door so it seems inevitable that the garden will take over a bit more space on the balcony next year…
Credit to : Exploring Alternatives
