Turn Your Patio into a Vegetable Garden

If you are residing in an apartment in an urban complex then gardening will be only a dream for you. But if you have a patio, then it can encourage you for gardening.
To add a little beauty to the patio, you can adopt a few small tomato plants, and plant them in large pots near the railing. They will grow surprisingly at your patio. You can prepare a small indoor vegetable garden at your patio with more than a dozen ceramic pots, plastic containers, and beach pails filled with peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and pole beans. It will make your porch like a curtain of green and your meals will be delicious with home-grown vegetables.

Patio gardening has some advantages over backyard gardening. In patio gardening if a plant is not getting enough sun, it can be moved. If it is not draining properly, more holes can be added. Watering is more efficient, because it must be done by hand, making a patio garden ideal in a drought situation.

Here are some tips for patio gardening:

1. With a little creativity, just about any vegetable can be planted in an above-ground container; however, the most common seem to be tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, beans, and spinach.

2. Make sure containers are large enough to accommodate a full-sized plant. Most tomatoes will need at least an 18" square container. Peppers, however, are perfectly happy in smaller pots.

3. To improve the soil drainage, cover the holes at the bottom of the container with small rocks.

4. A slow-release fertilizer can be added at this stage to distribute nutrients as the compost dries out. Fill a part with compost and remaining space with a nutrient-rich planting soil.

5. Water the plants and let them drain. Take them out of their pots and arrange in the container, packing in tightly. Fill in any gaps and firm all the plants in place. Keep the soil below the rim of the pot for easier watering.

6. Make sure the place where you want to plant gets at least six hours of direct sun every day.

7. For vines like tomatoes, cucumbers and beans trellises, cages or poles will be needed. You can also take advantage of permanent features, such as fences and railings, to support the plants.

8. In summer containers should be watered at least once in a day. A fertilizer dilutor can be clipped on to the hose to feed plants as you water.

So, by spending a little time, you can make your patio a beautiful garden of red and greens.

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