Garden on the balcony, here are ten original and creative ideas to make your green corner unique and pleasant, perfect even if you have little space and live in the city.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThink yours balcony is too small and unsuitable a cultivate a vegetable garden? In most cases this is not the case. In fact, there are numerous original, creative and space-saving ideas to create a suitable corner to grow.
For example, to obtain a vertical vegetable garden, just find a free space on the wall overlooking the balcony. Here are some ideas you can take inspiration from.
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Vertical vegetable garden
Where to grow the herbs? In a vertical vegetable garden made with recycled materials. All you need is a wooden plank, some plastic bottles, hooks, nails and a hammer. You will also need soil and herb seedlings to transfer into the bottles. You can hang the garden obtained on the wall of the house overlooking the balcony. The tutorial is proposed by Home Dzine.
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Cups and flip flops
Here is a truly original example for creating new vases from the recovery of unused or low-cost items. The blog Curiosities By Dickens proposes a creative project that transforms cups tall type “mug” in hanging jars, suitable for aromatic and medicinal herbs, or for flowers. The thongs serve as a support for hanging cups.
photo source: curiositiesbydickens.com
Strawberries in the PVC pipe
Growing fruit on the balcony, even with limited space, is possible. Here is a technique related tohydroponic agriculture o soilless cultivation. It allows you to get a rich strawberry harvest in just one square meter of space. Seedlings grow inside a Pvc pipe specially drilled. Flowers will sprout from the holes and turn into delicious fruits. THU the tutorial.
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Balcony greenhouse
Here is a project that is much more than just a plant shelter. This balcony greenhouse is a real one showcase for vases, which has nothing to envy to indoor furniture. In the lower part of the structure a drawer in which you can keep pots for seedbeds and gardening tools during the winter.
photo source: gardenista.com
Sacks from jeans
Here is an original idea to recover useful materials to obtain bags for growing on the balcony. What can we grow in the sacks? Potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and ginger, for example. But there are also those who, with a special technique for the vegetable garden in sacks, also grows salads, eggplants and tomatoes. Among the unusual materials for making bags, we find the denim obtained from old jeans.
Read also: How to grow a vegetable garden in a sack
Chair
If you have room for a chair on your balcony and you have an old one to reuse, you might want to try turning it into a coaster. It will be sufficient to simply place the vases on the seat, rather than buying special supports. It will also be an excellent opportunity for repaint thechair and make it more resistant to rain and humidity.
photo source: chickenscratchny.com
glove
Un fabric glove box it is an excellent starting point for creating a vertical garden for aromatic herbs. To hang it you will use a curtain rod. You will need hooks and vines, as well as good quality potting soil to feed your seedlings. You can buy aromatic plants in a nursery or grow them in a seedbed starting from seeds.
Read also: How to transform a storage compartment into a vertical garden
photo source: instructables.com
Rubber boots
Turn rubber boots you no longer use into flowerpots for giving a touch of color to your balcony. Even a single pair of old ankle boots is enough to give your green corner an extra touch of originality. Just fill the boots with suitable soil, after having pierced them in the bottom, and transplant flowers and seedlings.
Read also: How to create vases and planters from the recycling of old rubber boots
photo source: chickenscratchny.com
Pallets
Pallets are packaging materials that can be recovered at no cost quite easily. Equally simple is to turn them into a vertical support suitable forvegetable garden on the balcony. Following a practical tutorial you will get a perfect pot holder, suitable both as a planter and for aromatic herbs.
Read also: Urban gardens: how to build a do-it-yourself vertical garden with pallets
photo source: lifeonthebalcony.com
Drawers
A old chest of drawers, lots of very rich soil and lots of seedlings to grow will allow you to get an unusual vegetable garden on the terrace and recover a piece of furniture which had been abandoned for too long in the cellar. In the drawers you can grow salads, succulents, aloe vera, aromatic herbs and even small fruits, such as strawberries.
Read also: How to turn an old chest of drawers into a garden
photo source: grizzlybearmodern.com
Marta Albè
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