Don’t let your limited space thwart your gardening dreams. From your patio to interiors, you can create a mini yet beautiful garden with the help of these apartment gardening tips.
Having a garden in your home benefits you in many ways. It not only accentuates your living spaces but also reconnects you with nature. Plus, it improves the oxygen level and gives organic food as well.
But what if you are living in an apartment where gardening might not be possible due to a small space? Enter apartment gardening.
This form of gardening, as the name suggests, is meant for small spaces like an apartment. And it is easy and fun to create a mini garden in the patio or inside the room.
All you need to go through these easy tips to have a beautiful apartment garden.
Planter Boxes:
Planter boxes are a basic yet wonderful idea to live up your gardening dream. Good thing is that they are a great fit for small spaces.
Available in many shapes and sizes, they are made of metals, plastic, and wood.
You can place them on the top of a balcony, deck railing or a chain-link fence.
However, choose the one that comes with sturdy brackets that prevent them from falling off as well as a back bar that provides them extra support on the narrow railing. Also check if it has a removable water reservoir tray to store drips, thereby preventing them from leaking below.
Keep these Things in Mind While Having a Planter Box:
- Make sure the boxes have 2 to 3 holes for adequate drainage. If they don’t have, you can create them by using a drill machine. Keep the planter boxes in the place where they receive at least five hours of sunlight per day.
- Fill the planter boxes with the mixture of loam garden soil, sand and peat moss for healthy soil for the plants.
- Water the soil unless it drains out of the bottom of the planter box.
- Use a liquid plant fertilizer to the planter box after 14 days.
Square Foot Gardening:
In addition to planter boxes, you can grow a variety of plants in a small space. This practice is known as square foot gardening. It is a great way to make the most of your small space.
It requires the wooden boards to be nailed together so that they form a structure of the vertical grid. Fill each square with soil to form the raised beds. Plant the different vegetables in each of the squares. Square foot gardening is great as it doesn’t promote the grass growing in your garden space. Make sure to grow medium-sized veggies one per square.
For example, green beans can be planted four per square while carrots and onions can be planted 9 to 12 per square. Make sure to water them regularly. They should be exposed to direct sunlight.
Inside Gardening:
Don’t you have a balcony? No problem. Why not develop a mini garden inside your house? Yeah, it is easy to do. You can place some plants in your rooms. This not only lets you fulfill your gardening dream but also brings in life and color to your interiors.
However, inside gardening requires you to follow certain instructions.
- Don’t go overboard with watering as it can kill your plants. Only water when the soil is dry. In between, mist leafy and tropical plants with a spray bottle.
- If growing succulents or cacti, only water when dry. Do not mist succulents. They do not take water up through their leaves.
- Provide them maximum light and air. Place them near windows if the room is dark, especially the plants depend on sunlight.
- Place the ferns and other moisture plants in the bathroom.
- Watering the plants through bottom watering. Fill the dish they’re sitting in and allow the plant to soak up the water through the soil.
- Don’t keep the plants near ducted heat or ACs as excessive heat or cold can kill them.
- Make sure to keep grow lights close to the plants, but not so close to burn their leaves.
- Keep some varieties of plant which can survive inside like Pothos, Aloe, Spider Plant, English Ivy, and Jade Plant. They don’t require a lot of water as others and prefer the ordinary light and room temperature.
Vertical Hanging Garden:
Another cool gardening tips for a macro space!
Vertical hanging gardens look amazing and unique as well. It is a technique to grow plants on vertically suspended panels. For example, you can align the wall with several pots.
Or you can start by nailing bottles to the wall. Here’s how…
- Cut out the rectangle from the plastic bottle in the middle and then place a cardboard strip.
- Fill it with potting soil and place the plant inside.
- Wrap the loop around from both sides (near ends) and hang it on the wall.
- Nail them to the wall.
They are in rage among gardening enthusiasts these days. They let homeowners and renters grow crops or flowers in a small area of square footage. You don’t need a big backyard—a vertical garden can be started on a small strip of soil in front of your house or even on a balcony.
So these are some cool apartment gardening tips you can start today. What do you think? Let me know by commenting below.
David Brown: I Live in Oregon, USA and working with Conifer Kingdom. I began my career as a landscape designer with a distinct interest in dwarf conifers and Japanese maples. In my free time, I love to travel and go to swimming.