Local Harvest Gardening Course
The Medicinal Garden Kit
The Self-Sufficient Backyard
Five vegetables to grow on the balcony
Even if you don’t have a large space to make for instance a kitchen garden, there is still a lot you can grow on a small space. If you have a balcony, a veranda, a porch or some small available space, you can grow some of your vegetables yourself. You just have to be a little inventive and make good use of the space you have.
Three failures in the garden
When you are gardening, one thing is for sure – there will always be something that doesn’t work out the way you planned.
In this article I share three of the failures in my garden this year and also work out some new approaches to try next year to get a better result.
Can you do vermicomposting in an apartment?
When I started growing food on my balcony, I soon realized that I wanted to try to make my own compost. There are several advantages to making your own compost. However, composting is not an easy task when you live in an apartment. After my failure at hot composting on my balcony, I turned to worm composting, or vermicomposting, to see if that would work well in an apartment.
Hot composting in an apartment
I enjoy growing herbs and vegetables on my balcony, so I need to buy soil and compost. This is a yearly investment and it can be quite expensive. Having my own supply of high quality compost to mix in with the soil from the year before, lets me reuse the soil. Then I don’t have to throw it away, and buy new. And the plants get top quality soil to grow in and produce perfectly.