I want to make a garden in my balcony

Hi mayka! It is a good idea to develop a garden with some potted plants in your balcony. However, the prerequisites are - sun light,fresh air and of course regular watering. If you do not have either of these three elements or miss either of these then it will be difficult to maintain a garden. Instead of planting seeds (which take lots of time to grow and bloom into full fledged plants) you could buy seasonal/regular plants from a nursery and could fix them in the big pots (in small pots, plants do not grow much and you do not get much flowers, if it is a flowering plant). Make sure that your regularly water your plants and they get ample sun light. There are some plants which may require very less (direct) sun light, these plants are called indoor plants (mainly different species of money-plants) you could check from the Nursery and could plant them. All the best.

wow, That's a good idea. I too like maintaining garden. Balcony one sounds good as we can feel the cool breeze outside the window. you can plant some crotons with flowers and also plants with colorful leaves,that adds more attraction . If you like leafy vegetables then you can go for parsley and some spinach as they wont take much space.

It is lovely to make a garden for your own if you have enough space at your home. (recently I read somewhere plants can also understand the language we speak) . Now we can plant every thing in pot, you need to do spend some extra time. But it is always give great happiness once the plants started to grow. Here in this place plants will get infront of our house, sellers are plenty and roaming in cycle. But only things is we don’t know whether it will be good or not. So it will be better if you go to a nursery to collects small plants. Please update with us once you make the garden.Best of luck to your efforts.

There are nice plants that are easy to grow and are also colorful. If I were you, I would mix them with some nice herbs to uhave some fresh ones for your dishes. The kind of plants you need depend on where you live so I would suggest that you go to a plant nursery in your area and see for yourself.

hi, i love to have a small garden at home but i don't have such a place that i can build a small garden,so i only choose to have plants indoors that will become healthy even the sun not shine to them,but when i could have a wide and big house i will sure build a small garden at home.

Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well i think that is really a very good thought and that speaks how much u love gardening. It is always great to have a garden in your balcony as u can water and take care of them by yourself. Now since u have got seeds and plants for your garden, u can get some artificial plants as well as use some stuffs to beautify your balcony. Also u can use some colorful lamps and bulbs in your balcony to decorate the garden. What say?

Thats good idea to start a small garden in balcony . In my house, I have also a small garden . In my opinion, flower plant is good for garden in balcony .

don't over look what we call strawberry pots here in the US. In these pots you can plant many different plants in the same pot. It's great for herbs and other plants that hang down. Blessings

Plant something that bear flowers, like roses and suntan. Suntan is good because it's the kind of plant that is not very sensitive and can endure the hot sun or humid weather and bear flowers the whole year.

Good idea!Maybe you can pur some kinds of flowers there to make it looks colorful and beautiful, and flowers can bring us good mood.Does it sounds ok?

if you want color, flowering plants or plants that have colorful leaves would be great. if you want something edible, then choose vegetables and fruits. my mother has basil, rosemary, aloe vera, oregano, lemongrass, spring onion, and capsicum. our house is on a corner lot so there's a lot of space.

Have you considered colourful and edible? You might mix decorative pots/planters with a few dedicated to vegetables (if space allows). A suggestion might be planting out a balconiere (long narrow planter) with ordinary lettuce (green leaved) and also lollo rosso (maroon/red leaved lettuce). Beetroot might also be a possibility as it has colourful leaves (edible in salad) as well as juicy beets for boiling up and serving fresh or pickling. One planter might be dedicated to onions and carrots - different types of foliage but a good paring as onions and carrots deter each other's pests! On top of all that there's the saving on grocery bills!