If you have a small balcony rather than a garden, you don’t have to go without homegrown vegetables, as they can also be grown in pots.
Troughs are ideal for growing salad greens, baby carrots, spring onions, perpetual spinach, radishes, basil and other herbs.
But tomatoes, capsicums, chilli, zucchinis and eggplants need large pots that are at least 250mm wide to produce a good harvest.
Vegetables that are grown in pots also need to be watered more often, sometimes daily during the summer.
Feed them fortnightly with an organic soluble complete fertiliser.
And apart from growing vegetables in large pots and troughs, there are containers known as modular vegetable beds that are designed specifically for growing vegetables.
These modular vegie beds work well in small spaces.
They are made from Colorbond steel or timber and are available in lots of different shapes and sizes.
They’re ideal if you’re renting, as you can just pick up the bed and take it with you when you move.
You can also buy small vertical gardens for growing salad greens and herbs, which look great on walls and also save on space.
Freestanding vertical gardens can be easily moved to catch the sun throughout the different seasons.
Containers should be filled with a good-quality organic potting mix, generally you get what you pay for! Yates Organic Vegie & Herb Mix is perfect for vegetables, or they have specific organic mixes for strawberries, tomatoes, citrus and seed raising mixes too.
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