Like every year, a lot is happening on my small balcony, at least for me. This place is a kind of garden nursery, because I actually test different varieties of mainly vegetables, but also fruits. I check how plants respond to individual fertilizers, what planting period is best for them and how much sun the place where they grow must be.

This year I decided to significantly expand the range of my crops. So the balcony became dense. At the moment, there are two varieties of cucumbers, three varieties of tomatoes, four varieties of peppers, and I also planted eggplant, goji berries, zucchini, and turmeric. There is also room for strawberries, basil, lemon basil, and oregano.

Everything is growing beautifully as if on yeast, which I use interchangeably with nettle slurry as fertilizer.

Well, where there are lush plants, voracious bugs appear. I can handle them too, but the most work is cleaning the plants of voracious aphids.

It is true that I regularly make a preparation of garlic and chili peppers and it is even effective, but the imprecise spray means that I still have to look through the plants every few days and remove eggs and small aphids. Fortunately, there are not many of them and it effectively evicts them from my crops.

The seedlings are in various stages of development. Some peppers and tomatoes already have large fruit, others are just flowering, and there are some that have just gone into the ground.

Cucumbers are the most fruitful this year. This variety can be sown for almost half a year. I planted the first seeds in March, the next ones in June, and I will plant the last ones at the end of July. This way I have fluidity in the harvest for several months.

Of course, the quantities of vegetables harvested are not wholesale, but the joy of growing vegetables on your own balcony is indescribable, and every, even the smallest, tomato or cucumber that lands on my table is better than the chemical-filled products from supermarkets.