| My garden is not a conventionally beautiful garden like many people's I have seen on here, but it is beautiful to me because nearly everything was grown from seeds.
The majority of the plants growing here are heirloom vegetables which I am trying to grow as organically as possible, using seaweed based fertiliser - it stinks! - and natural pest controls such as chilli spray, garlic spray, pyrethrum - and so on.
You can see more of my gardening photos here:
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I would really love to hear from others that grow vegetables on their balconies and verandahs, and what their best successes have been. Currently I am growing:
Tommy Toe tomatoes
Reisen tomatoes
Crookneck squash
Jack-Be-Little pumpkins
Turkish Orange eggplants
Violet Queen beans
Red Meat radish (white on outside, pink on inside!)
Saxa radish
Purple Sprouting broccoli
Rainbow chard/silverbeet
Rocket/arugula
Oakleaf lettuce
Mizuna lettuce
Plus herbs and companion plants including marigolds, nasturtiums, thyme, borage, hyssop, lavender, salad burnet, lemon verbena, garlic chives and a sunflower.
Trying to grow lemon basil, meadowsweet, sage, evening primrose and lemon balm, but no luck so far. Evening primrose and lemon basic germinate, but the seedlings keep dying.
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