Tag: plants

  • Summer of 2019’s planting and growing

    Summer of 2019’s planting and growing

    In the summer of 2019, I grew some vegetables, herbs and flowers on my balcony, and in front of my kitchen window. Before I start writing about this year’s planting and growing I thought I should summarize that summer, and show some photos of it.

    Pelargons in a hanging plastic planting box, in front of a window
    Pelargons hanging on the wall under the kitchen window.

    Under the kitchen window, in front of my apartment, I planted pelargonium in a plastic plantbox, that was placed in a metal holder, fastened to the brick wall. I bought the pelargoniums at Lidl and planted them in pelargonium soil also bought there.

    Pelargonium that didn’t fit in the box by the kitchen window and got a nice life on the balcony instead.

    But let’s start a bit earlier. In the end of May I had acquired some pallets, painted them and put them on the balcony.

    To make sure they did not fall over I fastened them securely to the wall using a piece of bent “patentband” bent into a suitable shape.

    Tomatoes

    I bought two tomato plants in Lidl.

    The tomatoes were planted in two tomato planters that I also bought at Lidl, they have a support system built up with plastic rings and sticks, that are mounted higher and higher as the plant grows.

    Paprika

    I also bought a paprika plant, and planted it in a planter, the one seen in the photo above, behind the two tomato planters on the floor.

    I also bought a citrus plant, a lemon plant. It is the one planted on top of the pallet, in the corner, in the photo above.

    Results

    Later on the plants grew. I filled up a lot of bottles with water to use when watering the plants.

    I got some small paprikas.

    I also got some small tomatoes.

  • Autumn, balcony garden moved inside

    Our balcony garden has moved inside the kitchen.
    The basil is still alive, and a few cutlings growing roots.

    This summer we had many things growing on our balcony, both vegetables, flowers and other plants. Now the autumn has come, and since a while back the plants has moved inside, into the kitchen, and the living room. One was also placed in the bedroom, where it lived last autumn and winter.

    We are planning to split and separate the banana plants into their own smaller pots, it has so many baby plants.

    I want to try taking cuttings from the pelargon to propagate it, and I also plan to experiment with hydroponics on one or more of the shelves.