Best Apartment Vegetable Gardening Ideas

Wish for an own vegetable garden in your apartment? Imagine waking up to the freshness and cooling effect of greenery in your apartment balcony! Even in the little space of  your balcony you can grow your garden! Yes, not just flowering & foliage plants, you can even grow vegetables in your apartment balcony or a rooftop. You don’t need a lot of space to grow your own herbs and veggies. Here are some of the best apartment vegetable gardening ideas that will suit your flats in Thrissur. Just read on this run-through from Vishraam Builders, the best eco-friendly builders in Thrissur.

There are different ways to grow your vegetables like:

Container planting

For growing vegetables like Broccoli, Cauliflower, Tomatoes, Beans, Root vegetables, Lettuce and Salad leaves, container planting is the best way! As there are containers available in different shapes, sizes and materials you should do some research on which option and size is best suited and also on other growing conditions. Bigger plants like Tomatoes, Eggplants, Cucumbers or other fruit vegetables like Peppers, Okras, and Beans need bigger containers. Even if it is a rented flat in Thrissur, you can grow vegetables in containers and take the container with you to the next apartment. 

Ready soil mixes are available to buy online or you can get someone to mix sand with soil & fill it in your containers for your balcony garden. You can fill the bottom of the container with pebbles & coarse gravel before putting the soil in. This will improve drainage for your plants.

You can germinate seeds of vegetable plants indoors and then plant them in the containers on your balcony vegetable garden when they are ready.

Ensure your vegetable plants get plenty of moisture and sunlight & harvest your vegetables when they are ripe to get the best tasting vegetables from your balcony vegetable garden.

Wooden planters

You can construct your own wooden planters using old pallets or wooden crates. Paint them in nice colours and line with plastic sheets before planting. 

Plastic planters 

You can easily source plastic pots that are cheap and readily available from gardening and hardware stores or online stores. Best thing is that you can recycle old plastic bottles to make your own balcony planters.Terracotta and ceramic pots are a bit heavy but are best for growing plants.

Smart pots

These pots or grow bags are made from porous, lightweight material. They encourage drainage and root growth. Even hessian bags will work just as well.

Herbs and micro-herbs 

Old tin cans of biscuits or other items can be used to grow house herbs and micro herbs which are perfect for growing indoors and outdoors in apartments.

Growing a vegetable garden on a balcony is not just therapeutic but you can be assured of a supply of chemical free, pesticide free, yummy vegetables for your kitchen.

Book your flats in Thrissur with Vishraam Builders, the best builders in Thrissur with 19 years of excellence in constructing apartments in Thrissur.