🌱 MY ORGANIC BALCONY GROW - GROW YOUR OWN! 🌱

I thought i'd share my effort with you, I'm not exactly the most green fingered person. I grew up in East London and connecting with a nature wasn't really on the programme growing up. After I started getting into health food and seeing how expensive organic veggies were to buy in the UK, I decided to get an allotment. I thought it would be pretty simple but I quickly realized I had so much to learn and had completely no idea how this all worked. Whatever I read online and tried to put into practice the results just did not come to fruition. I manage to get a sack of potatoes out of it and some garlic which I never got around to harvesting before I left the country!

This large patch was too much for one person to manage, I got some helping hands from time to time, but I just could not keep up the work and the constant battle with the wildlife, the allotment site was advertised to be like a giant garden. Which was great for me because I lived in a apartment but that meant dear, rabbits, slugs and all sorts of other pest are passing through and were eating everybody's crops.

After moving to Catalunya and seeing how much sun is available everyday, I figured I'd have a better chance at growing just on my own balcony. I didn't have a big budget for this so I thought i'd start small and grab 3 containers from the local shop, some regular potting soil and some organic soil mixing 4 parts of potting soil to 1 organic part. I had some really good seeds left over from my allotment grow, which I got from Real Seeds based in the UK and just sprinkled them into containers.

I had watched a video that you can sow lettuce seeds quite compact this means you can yield quite a lot of leaves in a small space, cut them off and they will grow again, making sure you don't cut too far to the stem, leaving about an inch. I was surprised that it does work, I cut down all the lettuce over Christmas, I went away for 3 weeks and when I returned it had already started growing back. Unfortunately I got fungus gnats and they killed off the spring onion seedlings that were planted with the lettuce but at least the lettuce still managed to survive. I couldn't get rid of the fungus gnats organically. I tried washing up liquid and neem oil frequently, I wasn't prepare to use hydrogen peroxide as recommended online, so I decided to leave them be, if my lettuce is still growing I don't have a problem with them.

I also found some ginger that had started sprouting and thought it would be awesome to have some ginger plants in the house for the aesthetic beauty as well as for harvesting but unfortunately this didn't work out. I think it got too cold for the ginger and it had already sprouted too much before it had been planted, it's also probably not quite the right climate for them but I still wouldn't mind trying again but maybe planting them in the spring time instead of Autumn might be a better idea!

I will update you more on my Balcony grow as it develops and what meals I manage to make from my harvests, I hope you find this interesting. Any questions comments welcome and I look forward to any suggestions you might have for me!

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