Growing Vegetables on a Balcony

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I was trying to grow vegetables in my balcony. First I took some unused buckets, put some soil in it and for two years threw fruit and vegetable peels, egg shells and chicken bones in those buckets and watered it almost everyday. We bought some bhindi seeds (ladyfingers seeds) planted those and waited eagerly. We were not disappointed. They came out looking so eager to grow up.

A flower

After a while they start bearing flowers. When I saw the first flower, I was simply elated.

Ladyfingers

Some of the ladyfingers sprang up soon. Our effort is bearing fruits. 🙂

bitter gourd

These are bitter gourd plants. My camera couldn’t catch the small buds it is having right now. Subhanjan you are being missed here. But when it will start having karelas I will post those images in near future.

kaddu1

Two years back, we had a melon from our balcony.

Comments

13 responses to “Growing Vegetables on a Balcony”

5/4/2009

Hari

Hi Alka,
You seem to be the girl with magical hands. It indeed feels great and an inexplicable sense of satisfaction, when you get to eat a vegetable grown by your efforts.

Keep going.
5/5/2009

AmitL

Hi,Alka-you’re amazing…such experiments bring such a lot of happiness,na…(I always thought you need a garden to grow these plants)…I’ll surely be trying this out once I’m back in India(Will revert to you for ideas..*smiles*)…and,yes,I remember the melon post..:)
5/19/2009

arch

Hi,
That’s some amazing stuff you got there! It’s definitely a great feeling!

How do you manage pest control? I tried my hand at home-grown bhindi sometime back too, and although they bore fruit for a few months, they started dying out due to pests 🙁
7/5/2009

Mridula

Maybe you can do a post again on their progress?
8/23/2009

Sharad

I accidentally saw your site and was thrilled to see how good u r doing. U should share your experiences for the benefit of people like me. Thanks for showing the way.
2/19/2010

john smith

I live in a village and work in agriculturing. We produce vegetables in our farms and i try to read everything
about them. This information is very useful for me and i also found another useful guide about vegetables;

http://agricultureguide.org
7/18/2010

rajkiran

It gives us great pleasure to see the balconies like yous where the green vegetables grow.
Everyone should start the same
7/19/2010

roli

hi alka. i have developed a recent interest in growing vegetable in my balcony and when i see your blog which subjects the same – it was a pleasure for me to digg in. Wil you pls like to share your experience with pest control
Tks and best of luck with all your future experiments
8/14/2010

ekta

wonderful thing…great work especially for sharing it with everyone n dat 2 with pictures…i am also starting my terrace garden….will love to know more about dos and donts if u like..please contact on the mail address!!
8/25/2010

uggs

HaHA! I have already seen the great thing!!!
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10/10/2011

vijay manke

i am a rt. person age 71 and have a 300 sq ft terrace and a covered tin shade 150 sq fton top of two story house and just planning to start growing veg and got this site very good for the starters thanks very much
1/16/2012

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