Let’s get started! No matter how generous or limited your outdoor space is, our tips help you grow a small vegetable garden about anywhere. In addition to sun, placement, watering and fertilising, we also have a few upcycling ideas and insider tips on a bountiful harvest.
Empty yoghurt containers or food tins are the perfect pots for sowing seeds. Just make sure to poke a hole in the bottom so water can drain off.
Do your store-bought herbs start drooping after just one day? Divide the plant into four by the roots and give each new plant its own pot.
Overwhelmed at the idea of building something to hold your plants? Grow plants in buckets, old watering cans or simply the vegetable soil bag.
Covering the soil around plants with hay or plant clippings helps preserve moisture in the soil.
Shade, please! Mint, parsley, spinach, chives, chard, beetroot, radishes and lettuce flourish on balconies with partial shade.
Clever gardeners swipe a little soil from molehills. The soil they bring to the surface is perfectly aerated.
Banana peels are rich in potassium, magnesium and calcium. Soak the peels in water for a few days for the perfect liquid fertiliser.
You can start sowing most plants on the balcony in the springtime. Come autumn it’s time to harvest carrots, courgettes and co.