Recyling COntest #11 - My Entry - Transforming Our Unfinished Balcony Into A Container Vegetable Garden

Hello Steem Women Club Community!

How are you today? I hope everyone is doing great! This post is my entry for the Recycling Contest. Almost a year ago, my family and I started recycling water bottles, cans and other items as pots for the container vegetable garden in our home.

I have mention in several of my post about our vegetable garden. April last year, during the lockdown, we started our garden. We currently live in the city. We don't have a backyard or front yard lawn to start with. What we have is our second floor unfinished balcony. Just a few square meters of space no soil.

With the space available, we started a container garden using used water bottles and cans among others. The bottles and cans came actually from our neighbors. We ask them to give it to us which they also agreed because they know it will be of great use for our garden. We then purchased garden soil and started planting with few seeds.

I have also learned to recycle kitchen scraps like seeds and eggs shells and other biodegradable materials as well.

This is two of the pots hanged outside our window. This is Cinnamon Basil.

Materials We Used to Start Our Container Garden

These are the materials we used. Used water bottles and cans, hammer and nail to put hole on the cans, knife/cutter to cut the bottles in half and Of course our seeds and the soil.

Used water bottles, cans, hammer, knife, nail. Note, our neighbor gave us more than a Hundred of these cans. These are condensed milk cans. They have an Ice Candy business, so everyday they have a lot of cans to throw away.

Creating holes on the cans for water drain.

holes on the cans

Dividing the plastic bottle into two.

Putting holes on the plastic bottles.

Soil with egg shells.

Spring Onions from the Kitchen. I am planting it.

Planting the Spring Onions.

I am transplanting this Cinnamon basil to a bigger pot.

Filling the "pot" with soil.

New pot for this plant.

Our newly planted spring onions and newly transplanted cinnamon basil with rest of the garden plants.

We have been recycling bottles and cans for almost a year now and it saves us a lot of money for commercially made pots. It is not only ECONOMICAL, it is also ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY. Instead of throwing these plastic bottles and cans away, we are reusing them in our vegetable garden.

We had a lot of past harvest for almost a year now. We are glad that we are able to grow our own food while recycling.

By the way we are not only recycling plastics and bottles. We are also recycling the kitchen scraps from fruits and vegetables! I'll share the plants we have from kitchen scraps.

Sharing You More of the Plants in Our Container Garden

Believe it or not, these lemons plant came from kitchen scraps. I planted the seed from the lemon bought from the grocery store. Now it is almost a year old. No fruits yet. There are four of them. It is only three on the photo. The plants on the sides are eggplant and lemon grass.

The seeds of these Kalamansi (a citrus fruit also) was from kitchen scraps as well. Same age as the our lemon plants. It amazed every time I look at these plants. From kitchen scraps to these live plants. I also call it RECYCLING.

These are Water Spinach, and YES they were from kitchen scraps too!! I replanted its stalks and now here they are. We have more of them in our garden. RECYCLING!!

Kamote Tops. And YES your are right!! from Kitchen scraps too!! I LOVE RECYCLING!!

I hope you enjoyed reading my recycling story. I am loving the container garden that we have. It saves us money and it also gives me time to relax just by seeing the green plants around.

These container garden has transformed our bare unfinished balcony into a vegetable garden full of plants.

Thank you @steemwomensclub for this contest and the whole Steem Women Club Community.

Thank you also @booming, @booming01 and @booming04 for supporting this contest and the entire Steem Women Club Community.

Keep safe everyone and have a great day ahead!

Love,

@me2selah