| Designing a kitchen garden balcony doesn't only | | | | planting limited variety of compact vegetables, |
| provide colorful attractive tiny and dwarf varieties | | | | such as stump-rooted carrots or short-growing |
| of fruits and vegetables looks but also provide | | | | peas and broad beans. Although these bags are |
| your dinner table with fresh food. There are so | | | | usually not very attractive, you can conceal them |
| many varieties, which you can grow in hanging | | | | behind a brick faced frame or a timber so as to |
| baskets or other pots and tubs in a limited place, | | | | keep your balcony look attractive and stylish. For |
| such as miniature cherry tomatoes are best to | | | | proper drainage, there are specially designed trays |
| grow in hanging baskets, other options may | | | | and troughs available in the market that is useful |
| include dwarf courgettes, miniature aubergines, | | | | in draining water properly without flooding or |
| and an ornamental sweet pepper plant that | | | | ruining the balcony. Runner beans can also make |
| produces fruit in different shades of purple, red | | | | lovely annual climbers for a trellis. |
| and yellow, which are nothing less than any exotic | | | | Growing fruits |
| plant. | | | | Growing fruits along with vegetables in your |
| If luckily your balcony is a real suntrap, the best | | | | balcony is also a great idea. The kiwi plant, |
| available option is the high-rise gourmet that can | | | | Actinidia chinensis is purely a decorative climber. |
| do their best with early ripening and good yields. | | | | Other soft bushes like red or white currents, |
| Some modern varieties and hybrids are so bred | | | | loganberries, blackberries and black currents can |
| to produce the maximum fruit from the miniature | | | | also be grown in the pots and tubs. |
| plants, for instance, from just a single plant of | | | | One or two dwarf fruits with trained branches like |
| tomatoes or soft fruit, you can get 5 kilogram | | | | espalier and cordon will take very little place. |
| (10 lb) of fruit. The selection of plants largely | | | | Apples and pears can also be grown under these |
| depends on the size of your kitchen balcony. You | | | | conditions. The balconies with hot sunny conditions, |
| can start from pot grown herbs, strawberries, or | | | | apricot trees, peach and nectarine can be used |
| tomatoes to raised timber beds or boxes in which | | | | with branches trained into fan shapes. The sacking |
| you can grow salad plants like spring onions, | | | | must be used to protect the fruits and bushes |
| perpetual corn salad, radishes, and Little Gem | | | | where balconies are in cold areas and pretty |
| lettuces. | | | | much exposed. |
| Growing vegetables | | | | Citrus tree is a famous patio and balcony plant, |
| You can grow different varieties of vegetables in | | | | which can easily be clipped and trained formally. |
| your kitchen balcony, so that you will have fresh | | | | Citrus tree is usually grown for decoration instead |
| and healthy vegetables available at your home. | | | | of a source of fruit as they look so pretty. As |
| Growing vegetables in your balcony is a great fun | | | | the small pots and tubs are easy to lift and can |
| and thrill. You can grow potatoes in a barrel or | | | | be shifted indoor in cold conditions, these are best |
| you can use grow bags for the purpose of | | | | for sunny balconies. |