balconygardening

My SO and I have been planning to start a mushroom garden for awhile now. You can buy these kits with mushroom spawn in peg form, and you just drill holes in a log and hammer them in. I’d had big dreams of going along the bike path, adding them to all the dead logs there, until I learned how important it is to properly and...

Like hole size, placement, etc?...

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The article is available in both English and Vietnamese....

I’m launching a little balcony gardening project that involves water reservoirs. I don’t have much experience with these kinds of projects, so I need a little help....

Although slightly off-topic, I decided to post this since it applies to balcony gardens and indoor small-scale gardens alike.

by Christopher Porter

by Grant Barclay

by Ruth Hartnup

Does anyone have a good method for dealing with plant debris? I’m thinking about things like stems from plants, or even just pruned bits. I don’t have a place to compost effectively. My normal method for woody debris is to cut it to little pieces with garden shears, and for leafy stuff to just let it dry out and crunch it...

I started in mid-November and have already had 5 harvests! The outrageous red and oak leaf letteuce have done the best. None of the black seeded Simpson survived. They’re all leggy because of the distance to my grow lights but one of these days I’ll get around to setting up a way to drop them down....

Some years ago, I was learning brussels sprouts and had a few extra starts. I gave most away, but one I planted in a pot for goofs. It stuck around for a few seasons, even surviving a bolt. So, it became Brusselfriend. Three years later it finally bolted and killed itself. A few of the seeds grew into new sprouts and this one...

…hope this is still on topic....

So this year I grew some tomatoes for the first time. They were small but tasty....

I’ve had irrigation running on my porch for a few years now, so I figured it was worth making a post about how it works, and the pros and cons of it. I’m by no means an expert....

I have a balcony on raised ground floor with lots of trees hiding the sun. In the summer I get a few hours of direct sunlight, not enough to get anything flowering. I attempted growing tomatoes, and ended up with the tallest, most useless plant ever. Strawberries were also mostly leaves. There is a planter integrated on the...

And it works great on a balcony or indoor garden! Mint is also naturally pest resistant....