Miralmar's Balcony Mediterranean garden
Progress Journal (15)We live in an apartment about a mile inland from the port and get the seabreeze directly. Our climate is Southern Mediterranean: mild winters, and humid, hot summers.
Our balcony faces west and gets sun from noon onwards. It’s rectangular about 15×4ft. walled at each end. On the shadiest end, there is a round garden table, used as a potting table. A white gardenia sits on it, visible from the bedroom window. Underneath, we have started a compost bin. The compost is a mix of coco shavings, vermiculite, kitchen scraps, guano, waste water and regular soil too. We run the kitchen scraps through a food processor so they compost more quickly.
On the opposite sunny end of the balcony, there’s the spigot for a drip watering system I hope to have ready for summer. The water supply comes from my air conditioning unit runoff hose. Inside the collector recipient below it, a small fountain pump will help the water move along through tiny tubes around the balcony to the plants. Soon, climbing plants will hide the spigot area, climbing nasturtium and passifloras, now seedlings in the coldframe.
Along the front railing of the balcony, on glass blocks, are 2 4×1ft planters, divided for square-foot gardening. They hold tulips, carnations, rosemary sage, carrots and recently transplanted tomato plants.
At the sunny end, near the door, in a large square planter there is a grouped planting of young cypress, fir tree and heather. Beside it is a second planter holding an upright growing blue juniper. These will be moved to the shady end in May when there place will be taken by a rosebush.
On the iron balcony railing hangs one lonely planter with parsley, crocus and newly sprouted lettuce seedlings. Later planters will be hung all along the railing as more flower seedlings are transplanted from seed pots.
On the back wall, a make-shift cold-frame, composed of leftover glass blocks placed in a rectangular against the wall , is covered by small hinged window frame unit. This will be dismounted before summer and replaced with long planters for green peppers and tomatoes against that very sunny wall.
The balcony is accessed through double full glass doors at one end of the back wall. The area is tiled.
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