10 Easy Vegetables to Grow in a Container on Your Balcony

If you have a terrace or even a balcony, you can transform yourself into a “small city gardener” and grow your own fruits and vegetables. For this, there are free-standing or wall-mounted vegetable gardens and bins on casters which allow you to optimize space. But you need to carefully choose plants that require little space to grow. Here are the 10 vegetables to plant in a vegetable garden… 1 – CAULIFLOWER Cauliflower is perfectly suited to growing in pots. Provide a 30 cm deep container and put the cauliflower or broccoli plants in it between August and October. Plant the cabbage in compact clay vegetable soil, enriched with compost. Watering should be regular and the soil should be kept cool and moist. Make sure the cauliflower is exposed to enough sunlight. 2 – THE BEAN Whether climbing or dwarf, beans can be grown both in the ground in the vegetable garden and in pots on the balcony or terrace. However, if you don’t have much space, choose the dwarf variety. Choose a pot or planter 40 cm in diameter and 30 cm deep at least. For a better harvest, you can add a little ripe compost. Location-wise, choose a sunny spot, but definitely not a south-facing one. 3 – GARLIC Credit: how to save First choose a head of garlic, not necessarily sprouted, and separate the cloves. Then plant them slightly spaced in a pot or planter, with the pointed end upwards, 2.5 cm deep. Add potting soil on top and water once a week. Expose the pot to the sun. Cut the stems when they are about 10cm high, leaving 3cm so they can regrow. Then when the stems begin to dry out and turn brown, dig up the cloves: they will have transformed into new heads of garlic. You can then repeat the operation infinitely and start vegetative propagation again. 4 – PEPPERS Peppers in pots need a regular supply of fertilizer to grow well. 5 – TOMATOES Credit: mojerecepty Without a doubt, tomatoes have the best yield. They do very well in pots. They just need at least 5 hours of direct sun per day and a pot suitable for the variety grown. For the first time, choose a dwarf variety or cherry tomatoes. The “Red pear” or “Yellow pear” are particularly impressive in terms of yield. 6 – POTATOES If we draw up a list of plants suitable for planting in pots, potatoes will certainly be absent. A potato planter is, however, entirely feasible as long as you opt for a sufficiently large container, such as a barrel cut in half, for example. The procedure: rather than burying your potatoes to the desired depth, plant shallowly, then add more soil as the tubers grow. Planting them in a barrel makes this operation easier. And while the tubers grow, you can still admire and benefit from the green plant adorned with its pale-toned flowers. 7 – ZUCCHINI Credit: mojerecepty Very easy to grow, they have the advantage of having rapid growth and very pretty flowers. Plant the zucchini in a PVC or metal container at least 60 cm in diameter. Fill it with potting soil rich in organic matter. Place in full sun sheltered from the wind and water regularly. 8 – RADISHES Children may not like the peppery taste of this root vegetable, but they will love seeing the radishes emerge from the ground in 3 to 4 days. Parents love that they only have about one calorie per radish and that they are very rich in heart-healthy flavonoids. To have them on hand throughout the season, sow new seeds every 10 days or so. 9 – SPINACH spinach I can already hear the “I don’t like spinach” from the traumatized people in the canteen, but you will see that real spinach has no comparison with that green mush that we served you the day after mowing the lawn (an old urban legend). The advantage of spinach seeds is that they are easy to handle (due to their size). 10 – CARROTS Credit: gammvert Carrot plantations can easily accommodate growing in pots. However, before you can harvest them, meet a few important criteria: soft and sandy soil, regular watering and rather moderate temperature