Last summer I experimented with ways to grow food in very small places like window sills and balconies.
Naturally you would grow your food in (improvised) pots and buckets like I did with my Upside Down Tomatoes
That method was a great success and something I will do again next year in a larger scale.
I also found a way to tie several pots together in a chain, this would make it possible to distribute a lot of food on a very small area....by just hanging your pot chain over the side of the balcony for instance.
Best plants for this method are:
- climbing beans (in the lowest pot, so the beans can climb up on the rope)
- beets or zucchini (in the middle section)
- herbs/spices
I connected the pots with a simple Barrel Hitch which gave the whole thing a semi elegant look!
Naturally you would grow your food in (improvised) pots and buckets like I did with my Upside Down Tomatoes
That method was a great success and something I will do again next year in a larger scale.
I also found a way to tie several pots together in a chain, this would make it possible to distribute a lot of food on a very small area....by just hanging your pot chain over the side of the balcony for instance.
Best plants for this method are:
- climbing beans (in the lowest pot, so the beans can climb up on the rope)
- beets or zucchini (in the middle section)
- herbs/spices
I connected the pots with a simple Barrel Hitch which gave the whole thing a semi elegant look!
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| Small space food production on a "large scale" :-) |
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| I tied three buckets/pots together in a "train" using the Barrel Hitch |
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| I seperate the pots with a Reef Knot |
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| What holds a 200 L Oildrum on the sea can definitely hold a pot :-) |
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| Soon the vines from the beans planted in all three pots are CLIMBING |
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| The "mutant beans" I use are Berlotti beans :-) |
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