Grow a Garden Anywhere with these Tips
No Garden Space? You Can Grow a Garden Anywhere with these Helpful Gardening Tips
Lack of space should not deter you from starting a garden or carving a niche for a garden spot. It has been proven that anyone determined enough can have a colorful garden on the fifteenth floor of a concrete high rise or along the concrete jungles of the metropolis.
Window Ceil Gardening Tips
The old-fashioned window box gardening resolves the issue of lack of space for condo dwellers. Window box gardens also enhance the interiors and frame the view out there or spruce up the apartment’s exteriors – with spilling ivy, petunias, and geraniums.
- This type of gardening should be selected carefully to coordinate with the look and feel of the apartment or condo and the type of plants to grow.
You can make your own flower garden planter box o get a professional to do the job for you, complete with decorative add-ons and wall brackets to support it.
The next job is choosing your potted plants that can survive in the area.
Note the weather condition; is it too windy or does it rain too often and how much sun does that part of the apartment/condo receive during the day?
Knowing all these can help you choose the type of plants for your window garden. Garden suppliers can also fill you in and help you make the right choices of flowering plants or herbs for your garden, a greenhouse wouldn’t be an entirely bad idea either to buy or build.
- The issue of home security may be a concern especially if your home can be easily accessed. For the front window, install secure double lock latches. The window is secured from the inside so there is no worry that the plants won’t get their ample diet of sunshine if you leave the apartment during the daytime. Install a top vent or front awning if it rains often so you can leave the window open when it rains.
What Should You to Plant?
The choice of plants to grow will depend a lot on your personal preferences or gardening skills, ask around for gardening tips and tricks. If you are the type who goes for scents herbs in the kitchen’s window box garden are recommended: dill, lemon thyme, lemon verbena, mint, spearmint, and sweet basil.
- For romantic scents in the living room, go grab potted jasmine, lavender, nicotania, and sweet alyssum. The flowers also add a dash of colors that would revive anyone’s flagging spirits. If you want perennials grow crocuses tulips, daffodils, and primroses.
Homegrown vegetables might interest the culinary expert in the home – tomatoes, cabbages, beans, peas, and lettuces.
- Fresh homegrown veggies can stretch the grocery budget.
If you are big on ornamentation of your apartment or condo, choose plants that grow flowers that match the paint color of your home’s exteriors.
- Permanent greenery such as Dwarf Alberta Spruce, Mugho Pine, Bristlecone Pine, and small cacti are top picks for year-round ornamental plants.
Get Sterilized Soil
Good quality soil is important in gardening – indoors and outdoors, its easy to create your own compost gardens with a garden composter. For your window box garden and other indoor plants, take the time to sterilize the soil to get rid of nematodes and their eggs and noxious weeds that will eventually show up.
The best time to sterilize soil is during the summer or ‘cooking’ the soil in high temperatures using a large kwok after sieving to get rid of stones and other debris. Or buy sterilized soil from garden suppliers if the job appears too messy for you. Sterilized soil assures the safety of children and house pets from getting worms.
