By: Candice Keast
Are you excited to get your summer balcony ready?! Now is the ideal time to beautify your outdoor space by growing food -- and we've got all the info you need right here.
As a great intro (if we do say so ourselves), check out Live Green Toronto's 3-part Get Growing Toronto video series, which helps you along your container or balcony gardening journey. In the first video, we go through the process of turning a balcony that was largely unused into a food-producing space. If you don't have a balcony, not to worry. The video and the information in this post can be applied to any outdoor container garden location. You can grow food just about anywhere!
There are a few other things to keep in mind when you are getting your garden started. In this post, we will cover:
- Hardening off
- Transplanting
- Using compost
- Spacing
- Companion planting
- Drainage/watering, and
- Vertical supports
