Somehow there was at us no serious relation to balcony. Can be because so there are not enough days in year when we can enjoy it fully. Though even the smallest balcony can be turned into the charming place. Certainly, the major place in decoration of balcony is taken by flowers. It is enough to have brief experience of cultivation of plants to create corner where all family will enjoy rest and cosiness in the apartment.
It is required to you
- Seedling of annual plants
- Soil
- Boxes for flowers
- Suspended baskets
- Brackets for suspended baskets
- Watering can
- Complex fertilizer for flowers
- Secateurs
- Polyfoam
Instruction
1. Define conditions. If your balcony is oriented to the North, then you should be limited to shade-enduring plants. It is tuberous begonia, nasturtium, some grades of petunia. On South side geraniums, alissum, marigold, lobelia, koleusa will perfectly grow. Consider that on upper floors many plants will not be able to grow as their fragile stalks and flowers will break from wind gusts. If the floor from the tenth above, you suit lion's pharynx, lobelia, alissum rocky, ageratum, daisy, gatsaniye. Anyway for cultivation on the balcony choose unpretentious and fast-growing flowers.
2. Choice of landing containers. Buy plastic boxes, not less than 25-30 cm in depth. They are easier and durable, than boxes from tree. Choose boxes in which there are openings for water drain and also the grid interfering soil washing away is provided. If your balcony comes to the South or the southwest, buy boxes of white color. In dark boxes the soil will heat up very strongly that can lead to death of plants.
3. Arrangement of balcony. Decide how you will hang balcony flower boxes. If under your balcony there passes the busy pedestrian street, you should not hang out boxes with flowers from outer side. Otherwise the boxes fixed outside, the best option as do not reduce the useful area of balcony. On the balcony opened from all directions to winds and inquisitive glances of neighbors there is sense to arrange on each side wall from climbers. It can be ready plastic grid, the tense fishing line or kapron grid. Choose usual, simple climbers in leaving, such as ipomeya, sweet pea, maiden grapes, hop. The wall adjacent to the apartment can serve as the place for containers with suspended baskets. Fragile hanging begonias will perfectly grow in these baskets. Besides, on balcony it is possible to take out some flowers which are usually living with you in the apartment. Put large pots on floor.
4. Creation of compositions. Land in one box of plant, combined under the terms of cultivation. Beautifully plants of one look, but different shades look. It is possible to pick up, on the contrary, several species of plant with one color of coloring and to create monochrome balcony. Only consider at the same time coloring of walls of the building. So, white flowers against the background of white walls will be a little noticeable, and red flowers will be lost against the background of brickwork. Try to pick up plants with different terms of blossoming that on your balcony there were flowers during the whole warm season.
5. Planting of flowers. As drainage in balcony flower boxes use polyfoam, it practically weighs nothing, and on the qualities does not concede in anything to haydite. From above fill soil mix for balcony plants. You can prepare soil. For this purpose mix compost, the garden earth, the crushed peat and sand in equal proportions. Fill the earth in boxes not to the very top. Leave 2-3 cm free. Prepare new earth mix every year.
6. Features of care for balcony plants. The earth in balcony flower boxes dries up much quicker, than in room pots. Therefore the thicket should water flowers. As a rule, street flowers demand watering twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. It is necessary to carry out spraying to hot sunny days. You carry out fertilizing of plants every week, and do not forget to cut with secateurs faded flowers and leaves.