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Growing TONS of FOOD in a Super Small Garden – Balcony Container Garden Tour
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Growing TONS of FOOD in a Super Small Garden – Balcony Container Garden Tour



Welcome to our small balcony food garden! We’ve been growing and harvesting a surprising amount of food from our small container garden and we’ve been able to eat from it all summer long. Probably partly because we have so many containers now, but also because we’ve been doing succession planting, where we plant new crops once the previous one is not producing much anymore. So we’ve always got some seedlings on the go, and we’ve always got something fresh to eat.

We are growing some of our favourite vegetables, including three types of cherry tomatoes, two types of sugar snap peas, as well as kale, beets, and cucumbers, and we are also growing jalapeño peppers and purple beans for the first time!

Three of the herbs we use all summer long are parsley, basil and mint, so we’ve got lots of those growing. We also had cilantro and dill but they went to seed once the weather got hot so we’re going to plant more when the weather cools down.

The balcony is a good size for us, but we’ve got some seating and a storage box for cushions on one side, so the garden as it is right now is about 45 square feet or 4 square meters. But we love having plants to take care of and fresh food to eat right outside our door so it seems inevitable that the garden will take over a bit more space on the balcony next year…

We mainly plant in 3 different types of containers, rectangular planter boxes, shallow window boxes, and round pots. One of the reasons we try to stick to just a few types of containers is because we don’t have much space to store them over the winter, so buying the same shape and size is going to make it easy to stack them together at the end of the season so they take up less space. We also like using plastic containers instead of clay pots or wood boxes because they are super lightweight and durable.

We are constantly moving the containers around when we water, weed, and harvest, and we also move them around to protect the plants if it’s too hot, too windy, or if there’s a big storm. So it helps our backs when they are easy to pick up.

Setting up this balcony garden has been quite a lot of work and it’s definitely been a learning curve trying to figure out how to keep our plants alive and thriving up here. We’ve been trying out different fertilizers to keep the plants healthy, we’ve been managing different insect pests like aphids and cabbage moths, and we’ve figured out how to keep the garden watered if we’re away. But by far the biggest challenge has been the elements, and protecting the garden from heat waves, downpours, and high winds.

We absolutely love growing food and having plants to take care of, and we’ve already started ordering seeds for next year’s urban balcony garden 🙂

If you want to see more gardening and homesteading videos, check out our Growing Food playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLslKBpzJILetVBaBDIJg5_D3g-QZLYYgx
We’ve featured some really inspiring folks who are growing food on balconies, rooftops, backyards, and homesteads.

Thanks for watching!

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47 Comments

  3. @ct2136

    Container size is something you learn as you go. Peas/tomatoes will produce in small 3 gallons, but I've had no luck with kale/cucumber/squash in those

  5. @atropabelladonna

    Gardening is addictive… I started the same, with a few tomato plants on a balcony and a few years later I'm trying to manage an entire garden… with mixed results 🤣🙈

  6. @MiniGarden92

    Wow, how cool is gardening in your yard planted with various very fertile vegetables. Greetings to meet your hobby, sis

  7. @allie1953

    I did not see any grow bags. I did fairly well with those, with my tomatoes and I could fold them up at the end of the growing season, to store them. They did not tip over like the pots did, perhaps because of the shape they have- a wider base.

  8. @noonjustlife5215

    I grow tomatoes in Manhattan, New York. I have been infested with a bug resembling a little white mold. I haven't eaten my tomatoes this year.

  9. @vc6601

    Love that slatted table you made. You could make such things as a side hassle if they don’t take too much time; I’m sure there’d be many who love them too. Well done guys. 😊

  13. @JCC_1975

    Beautiful little garden. 💜 A little advice, stack vertically and you can increase your container garden. I have a small space and use a lot of the same pots as you. You can buy or build the stair step type container holders to place 3/5 of those containers going up. I can't wait to see what y'all do next. 💜 Happy growing 💜

  19. @42surreal

    No offense. Your garden is way more than 45 square feet. 5×5=25 for example.

    Or did you just mean soil coverage.

    Anyways.

    Either way amazing! L😊

  20. @kerryevans2038

    Enjoyed seeing your garden.Having mobility issues in my later life, i can only manage by growing in pots in a small area.Love sitting out there with my cuppa.Have all my small bids come in for a bath and check out my veges for some insects. Keep enjoying growing your own, havebeen doing so for 50 plus years.Lots of frustrations but would never stop

  21. @joel8056

    I’m so proud of these people , for taking the steps to do it and being so honest about it all

  23. @happyfreeky

    Tomatoes do fine in those wide but deep wooden barrel-like pots. The width gives more stability against wind

  25. @thatgyy

    I need so much more from this example. The way it was shot, the voiceover, the shots! Not only was it educational it was also therapeutic. If you wouldn’t mind I’d love to see how you explain starting various seeds and setting up your planters.

  31. @seethalakshmi1704

    Small place,, but big hearted work,,
    Seems greenery, own producing veggies, really super video.. Very interesting works u done,, keep going.. 🤝👍

  34. @da1stamericus

    I loved that you mentioned the elements. Ive been sàving séeds from my balcony plants because i have realised that they are becoming better used to my environment. Happy gardening.

  39. @noob19087

    I'll be starting a container garden in my balcony much like this one next year. But I have one question I haven't been able to find an answer to. Does your balcony floor flood with water from the drainage holes whenever you water your plants? Is that something I should be concerned with? Or would that only happen with severe overwatering? Even a short answer would be very much obliged, thank you 😊

  42. @derxiong8304

    Thank you for the full facts! Really enjoyed the video! God bless you all in Jesus' name. Amen! 💒👑🌹✝️💖💗😇💎🧡🍏🌈🍋🫒⭐✨🎀🎵💕🕊️💯🌟💞💐💫🍇🌾🍯🌺🔑🥇💰

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