r/Balconygardening

Bouquet de fleurs sur mon Althéa Flower Tower. Arrosages réguliers et températures moins élevées, cela lui réussit et il le montre… #fleurs #été #hibiscus #balcon #paris

All potted plants 🪴

In the pictures there’s a total of 6,557 kg

So happy and thankful for this harvest🍅

Which it currently doesn't after the heatwave but this reminds me of happier balcony times!

My first sunfower ☺️

Hi all,

Just bought this large pot to go by my north-facing front door and at a loss as to what plant(s) I should…plant in it.

It’s currently winter, so the sun is lower in the sky but the plant won’t catch direct light. The position is quite recessed in and weather-protected.

I have been considering plants that are ideally pretty structured due to the narrow area.

Any suggestions or ideas will be appreciated!

Hi everyone, I had gotten a snail vine creeper last year from Home Depot and it was maybe 3feet tall. This summer it had grown quite a bit. I live in a town house and I’m not allowed to drill holes in the balcony. I tried using plant clips along with 3M tape to support the creeper but it’s become too heavy. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to support creepers in the balcony?

I’m currently looking at trellis like: https://a.co/d/09HtGKZJ but I’m not too sure on how to weigh it down without getting large decorative pots etc. So if anyone has any other options such as railing clamps or anything, I’d love to know! Thanks! 😊

I bought myself a meyer lemon tree for my birthday! Came from SC in a 1gal planter, repotted into a ~2.5-3gal, she is outside in my fully sunned backyard for the time being (rest of the summer). I am in Central NY so I feel this plant is already a gamble for me but I am determined to see it fruit.

I knew it couldnt live outside full time and I probably should have purchased before august BUT…what do now? 50 degree night temps are still a few weeks away but I’m trying to prepare to move her inside.

I know I will most likely need some kind of tent/light setup in the winter months as my house stays dry. My sunroom stays lit, but will get far too cold for a citrus plant. The problem is, when I google “grow tent” it is giving me full on marijuana plant growing set-ups and I don’t think i need something that involved?? I see pics of people’s setups on here and they kind of look like basic tent-like things, where are we getting those?? Even on Home Depot’s website, I am getting these big elaborate “grow rooms” and I only need room for one or two plants 😭

I saw on one FB post they recommended what looked like a small pop up tent, but with the heat from the lights do I need to be careful of the material it’s made of?? Also, light suggestions would be helpful.

Sorry if any of this is blatantly obvious, I am a baby gardener with basically all indoor, indestructible plants (basil, oregano, catnip, money tree) besides my tomatoes. I also have OCD (hence the fire hazard questions) but overall just loooove lemons so I really want to get this right!!

I was bitten by the gardening bug last summer and my first year was filled with lessons and a few tomatoes. Spent all winter reading and watching all I could about growing tomatoes and, for the first time in my life, I could not wait for summer.

Grew these tomatoes from seed indoors, transplanted to my high rise balcony, fought the weather and high winds on a balcony at 200ft, and here's my result!

I am so excited... grew the tomatoes, grew the basil and enjoyed this amazing salad.

Hiii! This is my first time growing veggies. Just wanted to share my experience so far! Also wanted to share my little gardening space lol

I started with okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers, but my peppers are the only ones that survived🫩 I planted about 9 seeds per plant type so had 36+ good seedlings total (planted some extra when the first ones weren’t growing)

But these peppers have survived low light, long vacations, over fertilization, and a big move between places so I have a lot of hope for them. I am worried cause the new balcony doesn’t get much light but we will see.

For the fall, I’m thinking about growing some shade loving plants like leafy greens and maybe some root veggies? Would love some potatoes, carrots, and onions as well! Hoping those will do well on my shady balcony.

If you made it to the end, any advice you have for shady balconies would be greatly appreciated! Also any edibles that have grown well for those with shady balconies! Happy to join the community! 😊

This summer isn’t as hot as the last four summers, so my plants are doing really well and look healthy 😍 I’m looking forward to kumquats this winter 😍

I tend to go a bit overboard when I start hobbies, hopefully these will survive 😅

From left to right (roughly):

• A coffee plant
• Two little Jade plants (crassulae)
• Several asparagus plants (from a single one from Ikea)
• A small attempt at growing a tobacco plant from seed, those are really tiny seeds!
• A portulacaria afra

I live on a rather dry climate, so hopefully these don't do terribly...

Il y a de la plante au balcon ! Quelques photos prises ce matin à la fraîche. #balcon #été #paris

I live in an apartment in the dry part of NW Spain, and don't have many spots where to have plants outside. A small balcony roughly NNE and this windowsill, WSW, which is rather hot and dry during the summer afternoon.

So I've been attempting to keep a tomato plant here, which doesn't die but also doesn't quite thrive, it's only given two tiny cherry tomatoes so far, and most flowers sadly don't develop fruit. Maybe too much heat or too little humidity, or maybe I've neglected the potassium fertilizer a bit.

Then recently I got a guindilla plant which seems to be doing ok (other than it seems to be fully into growing a single pepper and barely any new leaves), and some curry rosemary and thyme (which iiuc are fine with this sort of weather).

It doesn't look great right now, but it's my first time doing some gardening outdoors in forever, so I decided to take this summer as learning time and see what works and what doesn't in these conditions. Hopefully next year will be better.