You don't need your own garden to harvest fresh vegetables. A sunny balcony also offers the best conditions for this. You can easily build and create a vegetable balcony garden yourself with our instructions, which is an absolute visual highlight and you can soon look forward to delicious vegetables.

Tomatoes can also be grown in tubs

The vegetable bed in the bucket

Flowering tub plants can be found on almost every balcony. So what could be more obvious than converting the already existing planters next year and planting vegetables in them. Bowls, troughs and boxes only have to be large and deep enough for this purpose, for example if you want to grow carrots in them.

When planting, you have plenty to choose from: tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers thrive in a bucket or box. Carrots, lettuce, radishes and even the popular sweet potatoes are also ideal for the vegetable patch on the balcony.

Build a raised bed for the balcony yourself

In many hardware stores you can get ready-made vegetable raised beds for the balcony. These hold less substrate than models for the garden, so that the balcony slab is not burdened with unnecessary weight.

Especially when the architecture of the balcony is difficult, for example because the patio is very long and narrow, it makes sense to build the raised bed yourself and thus make optimal use of the space available.

building instructions

Material list:

  • 2 wooden boards in the desired width, 40 cm high
  • 2 wooden boards of the desired depth, 40 cm high
  • 1 matching floor board
  • 4 not too thin square strips as feet
  • 2 strips to stabilize the feet
  • 4 to 6 strips to secure the floor
  • pond liner
  • screws
  • cordless drill
  • staple gun

execution

  • First screw the side panels and the floor together.
  • The thin strips are attached under the floor as a safeguard.
  • Screw on the feet and connect two feet with crossbars for additional stability.

Although the wood on the balcony is not as exposed to the weather as in the garden, it is advisable to coat the raised bed with a protective coating before planting.

Then lay out the pond liner in the planting bowl. The material should completely line the vegetable bed for the balcony and not be cut so that the wood does not come into permanent contact with the water. Staple the foil all the way around.

The finished raised bed can now be filled with soil and planted.

Which substrate is suitable?

A mixture of soil and mature compost is suitable for the balcony vegetable garden, as it provides the vegetable plants with all the nutrients they need. A drainage layer made of expanded clay that is filled into the bottom of the planter (€19.73), which serves as a water reservoir and prevents waterlogging, has also proven its worth.

tips

Since the limited amount of substrate cannot store as many nutrients as garden soil, regular fertilizer applications are advisable.

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Vegetable garden