Planning a Balcony Garden: A Few Tips

If you don’t have an actual garden, but want to put your plants in pots and have a container garden instead on your balcony or patio, it’s going to involve more than just buying a bag of soil and some annuals and slapping them into containers haphazardly. If you’re going to have any success with [...]

Balcony Gardening and the Choice of Pots

You live in an apartment, you don’t have a garden, or you’ve only got a small balcony or porch. All of this means that you can’t possibly grow a garden of your own, doesn’t it? Actually, no. If you’ve got even a small space that gets a little sun, you can have at least a [...]

Balcony Gardening and the Right Soil

If you’re going to have a container garden on your balcony or patio, you’ll want to be sure you have the right kind of soil. Going and grabbing ordinary dirt from a garden or field won’t be sufficient, because the conditions in a container are somewhat different than in a more open garden space, and [...]

Growing Vegetables in a Balcony Garden

If you look down from your balcony with longing, gazing at the houses below with their large vegetable gardens, don’t give up hope. You, too, can grow your own vegetables with a little sunlight and preparation. If you set the plants in containers, you can spare yourself some of the weeding, they’ll be harder for [...]

Growing Berries in Balcony Gardens

When you’re contemplating a balcony garden, don’t forget that as well as flowers, herbs, and some vegetables, you can even grow a few types of fruit in pots. However, you do need to be sure it’s the right kind of fruit if you want to be successful. The first thing to realize is that “stone [...]

Having an Autumn-Winter Balcony Garden

You might not believe it, but you don’t have to lose your entire container garden in the autumn when most plants either die or go dormant. In fact, there are some plants that actually prefer colder weather, and do quite well for some time into the winter. If you are in a mid-range or warmer [...]

Preparing a Balcony Garden for Winter

If you’ve got a balcony garden and the end of summer is fast approaching, the thought may finally occur to you, “What do I do about the winter?” It’s true that annuals will be pretty much done, and won’t come back for next summer anyway. But you can plant perennials in containers as well. Do [...]