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With just a small amount of money, your whole family can have a mini garden full of diverse and safe vegetables.
Currently, in densely populated cities, more and more apartments are being built. Each apartment has a few small balconies, most of which are used for drying clothes or sunbathing. However, we can also transform them into a fairly easy-to-make 'garden' of clean vegetables. Today, PasGo will share with you some basic experiences!
Choosing Vegetable Varieties
For narrow balconies, growing long-term plants can be difficult due to the effort required for maintenance with delayed results. Therefore, choosing sprouts, herbs, or short-term plants is the most reasonable option. You can choose from varieties such as tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, herbs like basil, and leafy vegetables for consumption.
- Tomatoes: Tomatoes are a common vine plant, easy to grow, and easy to harvest. You just need to plant them in pots, containers, or foam boxes with supports for the plants and place them in a sunny spot for good growth.
- Beans: You can grow various types of beans on your balcony, from snap beans, lima beans, to bean plants for seeds...
- Lemon: Growing lemons doesn't take up much space and you can both harvest the fruits and use the leaves as seasoning.
- Various herbs: such as parsley, mint, basil, lettuce, chives... are easy to grow, require little care, and yield quick harvests.
Choosing Planting Pots
Depending on the type of vegetable and the quantity of seeds, choose suitable pots.
- For herbs, small pots are sufficient.
- For plants like lemon, tomatoes, and beans, you need larger pots as they require more nutrients than smaller plants. Nowadays, there are various types of pots such as foam boxes, plastic baskets, woven baskets, smart plastic pots, trays... The most popular type of pot nowadays is smart plastic pots. These pots can retain water, helping to prevent soil from drying out. Additionally, they are compact, come in various sizes, and can be placed or hung on balconies as desired.
In addition, hydroponics is also a new method of growing vegetables favored by many people due to its maximum space-saving, easy implementation, no need for soil, and minimal care. There are two types of hydroponics: recirculating hydroponics and static hydroponics. Recirculating hydroponics involves automatically pumping nutrient solution to irrigate vegetables, while static hydroponics uses pre-mixed solution in a container.
Growing plants using the recirculating hydroponic method is simple and easy to implement
Choosing Planting Soil
High-quality organic soil is the top choice for growing green vegetables, but if you can't find organic soil, you can use regular garden soil and supplement with fertilizer to enhance nutrients. Besides, there are many types of packaged clean soil available on the market, with ingredients such as compost, coconut fiber, topsoil, organic fertilizer... If you choose to buy this type of soil, you should pay attention to the ingredients and mixing ratios to suit each plant variety.
After considering these three issues, you can completely grow your own vegetable garden on your balcony. Clean vegetables are always an essential source of food in every family's meal, so growing vegetables yourself is always encouraged. Especially when you grow them yourself, not only is the quality of the vegetables ensured, but also it saves costs and brings joy and relaxation to you after hours of exhausting work. Wish you success!
Compiled by Thanh Mai - PasGo.vn
