Our 2018 balcony crop is in.
We didn’t grow corn this year. This year, we bought our tomatoes and red peppers from Emma Biggs, co-author of Grow Gardeners. These tomatoes were the best we’ve grown so far on our balcony.
2018 Balcony Crop
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2017 Balcony Crop
We have harvested our 2017 crop.
This is an interesting year, as we had a late start to the season, and less sun than normal. We’ll have even less sun in future years, as a new condo building is going up in front of us and will certainly reduce the amount of sun received by our balcony.
- I’m not sure what happened to our corn, but we only had a couple of very sad looking cobs.
- As the corn didn’t grow very well, the pole beans didn’t have anything to climb, so they didn’t do very well either.
- The tomato plants did well
- We grew more carrots this year – they were amazing
- All the flowers did well
2016 Balcony Crop
Our 2016 balcony crop has come in. A bit of a disappointment this year, as we were away for most of August, and were not able to care for the garden as much as we would have liked.
- The corn was harvested too late – by the time we returned home, it was overripe and tasted pretty gross. It looked OK.
- Our sunflowers and some of our other flowers died
- Some of our carrots fared well and tasted great, but another planter of carrots died
- One of our tomato plants died, the other is still doing well and bearing a couple ripe tomatoes every day
I need a balcony friendly watering system!
2015 Balcony Crop
Our 2015 balcony crop is coming in.
- Our strawberry plants have yielded a couple of mediocre berries every day
- The verdict is out on our first broccoli plants. They do not resemble what we get from the grocery store
- Cherry tomato yields are good (production is exceeding consumption)
- Carrots are tasty, but small
- All flowers are beautiful
- Pole beans are excellent
- Chives are excellent
- We added a third pot of sweet corn. In spite of our late start, it looks like yields have increased and quality is good.