Ready, Set, Grow!

Time to start up the balcony garden again! It’s a bit of a late start this year, but to be honest, the weather has been absolute shit until recently. Now it’s awesome though; 20c days and plus degrees all night, so all is well.

I really should have done a “before” picture – I spent the evening readying everything, and I dragged down 200l of used soil and dead plants to the trash room in 4 (heavy!) sacks in preparation for everything. I had enough fresh soil for 6 pots, so they’ve already been filled, and the sweetpeas are soaking in a glass of water so they can be planted tomorrow. Also, my strawberry plants survived the harsh long winter and are happily growing. Now I need to find a friend with a car so I can get some more soil, but to be honest, just getting all the old stuff thrown out has helped immensely, as that was a sort of mental block to get started again.

Anyway, a picture of my strawberries and a quick look from the window post cleanup – the plastic covering on my little greenhouse had been folded up and lying on the balcony ever since last summer, so it needed a scrubbing – hence why it’s wet in the pictures!