Our small balcony this season
We have relatively small balcony facing SW.
This year I decided to grow vegetables from seeds. I have 3 types of tomato, 4 types of peppers (habanero, jalapeño, unknown pepper from Mexico from friend, and sweet snack pepper), cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, grean peas and some herbs…
And some fruits - small strawberries, redcurrant, raspberry and kiwi.
Oh and cat grass, some flowers and one very sad bamboo fargesia (we had 4, but mealy bug infestation killed the rest last year - it’s pest magnet and I hate that plant 😂)…
I hope for success this year! It ended badly last three years - spidermites, aphids, too hot weather, small containers, almost no fertilizer and not enough watering…we all learning, right?
This year I mixed soil with vermicompost, coco fibre, perlite, kelp, get bigger pots and bags, using ollas, and finally we have awning for shade so the plants don’t get cooked and got liquid fertilizer.
I treated kiwi and bamboo with neem oil ( these plants were always starting point for pests) and I check them every day.