Spring has sprung! The first official day of Spring was last Friday. Below I’ve put together tons of posts to help you plan and care for your container garden. Be sure to bookmark this post for future reference!
Photo by Steve Took It
PLANNING
- How to Plan a Beautiful Balcony Garden: Some ideas and resources to help you plan your balcony garden without giving yourself a headache in the process.
- Selecting the Perfect Pots for Your Container Garden: Things to think about when it comes to pot materials, color and matching plants to pots.
- Using a Color Wheel to Create a Stunning Balcony Garden: An easy way to pick flower, leaf and pot colors that are guaranteed to look great together.
- Strategies for Dealing with a Windy Balcony: Don’t be dissuaded from gardening in the sky! While not every plant is suitable to being batted around by the wind, there are things you can do to help your plants cope.
CONTAINER IDEAS
- Made in the Shade – A Container Recipe for Bright Shade: An easy 1-2-3 plan for a pot that will be placed in the shade.
- Plant Combination Ideas for Beautiful Container Gardens: Included are plans for a hummingbird garden, apple “orchard,” drought tolerant container and more!
- Anyone Can Grow Irises in a Container: An easy to follow guide to growing irises in containers.
- Rose Container Recipes: Two detailed ideas for using roses in a container design and several more ideas to help you incorporate roses into your balcony garden.
- Herbal Tea Garden: Grow your own herbal tea. Super easy, yet still pretty.
- More Plant Combinations: You can never have too many ideas when it comes to which plants look good together!
EDIBLE CONTAINER GARDENING
- Tasty Flowers and How to Eat Them: A good way to kill two birds with one stone is to grow edible flowers. You get to grow pretty flowers and something you can eat all in one plant.
- Easy to Grow Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs: A list of great edible plants with links to information on how to grow them organically.
- Grow Your Own Herbal Tea: A handy guide to plants that can be grown in containers and make great tea infusions.
- Grow Your Own Food So Your Kids Will Eat Healthily: Tips for getting kids involved in growing food in order to entice them into eating the veggies they grow.
- Vegetable and Herb Companion Planting: Planting two different types of plants next to each other is often has great side effects!
- Natural Mosquito Repellent: Find out which herb you can plant on your balcony to keep it mosquito free!
- How to Care for a Container Grown Apple Tree: Everything you ever wanted to know about growing an apple in a pot!
BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES
- Banish Hum-Drum Hummingbird Feeders: A great collection of hummingbird feeders that are beautiful as well as functional.
- Easy Ways to Attract Butterflies To Your Garden: A container recipe sure to attract butterflies and other tips on attracting butterflies to your balcony garden.
- Attracting Bees to Your Urban Garden: A comprehensive resource to attract one of the most important pollinators to your container garden.
- iPhone Bird Guide App: Check out this great application for your iPhone that will help you identify the birds visiting your balcony.
If you thought these ideas were helpful, wait until you see what I have planned for the upcoming weeks. Subscribe to Life on the Balcony and never miss a single tip or trick.
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