Tips to Create a Mini-Vegetable Garden at Home
Take advantage of the confinement period to transform your balcony, your terrace or even your kitchen into an organic vegetable garden!
If you have a balcony, a terrace or a sufficiently large and well-lit room, you can create a mini-vegetable garden at home. You may not have the same harvests as in an open-ground vegetable garden, but many varieties of vegetables and aromatic plants are perfectly suited to growing in pots.
The choice of your crops depends on the surface area you have. Preferably choose fast-growing, shallow-rooted species.
Also think about the aesthetic aspect by choosing decorative flowering vegetables such as zucchini or scarlet runner beans. You can also specialize in the production of sprouts with high nutritional value.
Many seeds from organic farming are indeed consumable after only a few days of cultivation!
There are sprouters specially designed for this purpose. You can then harvest your first germs in your kitchen! A south-facing balcony or window allows the cultivation of Mediterranean species such as peppers, tomatoes, eggplants and many herbs.
On the other hand, if your premises only receive the sun for part of the day, choose leafy vegetables such as lettuces or chard.
Parsley, chives and borage also do well in semi-shaded locations.
Vegetables that grow well on the balcony
Among the vegetables suitable for growing in containers, there are dwarf varieties of eggplant, lettuce for cutting, strawberries and of course many cucurbits such as cucumbers or zucchini.
Many of these vegetables, herbs and berry bushes grow very well on a sheltered patio or balcony. Today, there are more and more miniature varieties specially designed for growing in pots or hanging baskets.
How to plant my vegetables: container and substrate
You will also need to equip yourself with tubs, pots and planters large enough to allow good development of the vegetables.
You will fill them with a good quality soil, preferably organic, nourishing and airy. Avoid mixtures based on peat and bark, which are too lean. Make sure you water regularly: in containers, the plants have a small volume of soil which dries out quickly.
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