Homegrown fruit and vegetables, fresh herbs and fragrant flowers are not dependent on a garden. As the proud owner of a balcony, you have a colorful range of easy-care useful and ornamental plants at your disposal for your own cultivation. These tips are for beginners who feel called to be a balcony gardener. How to garden successfully without a garden.

Vegetables and flowers on the balcony create a garden ambience

Good planning is half the success - you should pay attention to this

In order to use the limited space optimally, detailed planning sets the course. Sketch the balcony to scale on a piece of paper. Measure and note free wall surfaces and the railings as potential cultivation areas. Under the keyword 'vertical gardening', the specialist trade offers the right planter for every need, from plant bags to raised beds in the form of shelves.

Small in growth - big in yield - recommended useful plants for the balcony

To ensure that your debut as a balcony gardener is a complete success, we recommend robust, small-growing vegetable and herb plants to start with. The following species and varieties will bring a rich harvest to your garden on the balcony:

  • Fruit: Strawberries in window boxes and columnar fruit in tubs, such as plums, cherries and apples
  • Tomato varieties: Red Murmel, Tiny Tim, Red Robin or Humboldtii
  • Lettuce: American lettuce or lamb's lettuce
  • Vegetables: Swiss chard, potatoes, French beans, cucumbers, peas, mini pumpkins
  • Herbs: parsley, rosemary, oregano, basil, sage

Most vegetable and fruit plants transform the garden on the balcony into a colorful sea of blossoms when they are in bloom. Marigolds or marigolds, which at the same time repel pathogens and pests from their plant neighbors, provide additional joy in flowering.

How to plant correctly in the garden on the balcony

Please use peat-free organic vegetable soil from specialist shops as a substrate. To prevent waterlogging in the planter, fill the substrate over a drainage made of potsherds, pebbles or expanded clay (€19.73). Ideally, place an air and water-permeable piece of fleece between the vegetable soil and the drainage so that the water-bearing layer does not become clogged.

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There is no room in the garden on the balcony for mineral industrial fertilizers. By reserving a bright niche for a vermicompost when planning, you create your own natural fertilizer. Uncooked kitchen and plant waste is processed here by busy microorganisms into valuable humus in order to biologically fertilize vegetables, fruit and flowers.

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Garden design