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FoAM offered me to transform their small balcony into a Bioproductive site. It will allow me to practice gardening and garden design. | FoAM offered me to transform their small balcony into a Bioproductive site. It will allow me to practice gardening and garden design. | ||
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- | ===Site pictures=== | ||
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- | ===Environmental description=== | ||
The balcony is facing East and South. Walls protect it from West and North. Thanks to its position at the last floor of the building, he gets sunlight during most of the day. He can also benefit from rainfalls, as it is not cover by a roof or another balcony. | The balcony is facing East and South. Walls protect it from West and North. Thanks to its position at the last floor of the building, he gets sunlight during most of the day. He can also benefit from rainfalls, as it is not cover by a roof or another balcony. | ||
- | ===Design principles=== | + | ====Design principles==== |
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* **Perform crop rotations**: | * **Perform crop rotations**: | ||
- | ===Design | + | Here are some [[michka: |
- | {{ : | + | ====Non-Vegetal Infrastructure==== |
- | {{ : | + | Here are some details about [[michka:know-hows: |
- | ===What I planted=== | + | ===Seedling Pots=== |
- | On February 26th, I planted: | + | {{ : |
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+ | I built most of my seedling pots [[michka: | ||
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+ | I used many different kinds: | ||
+ | * Plastic bottles bottoms | ||
+ | * Aluminium drinking cans | ||
+ | * Aluminium food cans | ||
+ | * Small & big plastic yoghurt pots | ||
+ | * Cardboard-aluminium drink boxes bottoms | ||
+ | * Cream cheese plastic boxes | ||
+ | * Appetizers plastic boxes | ||
+ | * Vegetable plastic boxes | ||
+ | * Eggboxes | ||
+ | * Toilet paper rolls | ||
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+ | The only thing not to forget is to poke holes at the bottom of the containers for draining. | ||
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+ | My favorites remain plastic boxes. Aluminium cans are good, but their cutting edge may be harmful for some creeper' | ||
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+ | My first batch was made from very big pots, which need a lot of soil to be filled. My subsequent ones where made with smaller pots, to save the amount of soil use and start out more seeds from the beginning. | ||
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+ | To start out seedlings, I would say that small yogurt pots are the best I found until now. | ||
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+ | ===Growing Bags=== | ||
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+ | After some web research, I understood that it seemed completely fine to [[michka: | ||
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+ | I also performed some [[michka: | ||
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+ | ===Windshield=== | ||
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+ | After dramatic death of my first seedlings during a windy day, I started to think about how to protect the plants on the balcony from the wind. I have currently installed a piece of transparent plastic and some glass windows as windshields. I may move towards a system based on plastic bottles. | ||
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+ | ====What I planted==== | ||
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+ | I am looking for seeds, and I have a few of them to exchange too. Have a look at [[http:// | ||
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+ | On February 26th, I planted | ||
* Three pots of [[michka: | * Three pots of [[michka: | ||
* Three pots of [[michka: | * Three pots of [[michka: | ||
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- | ===What I would like to plant=== | + | On March 3rd, I planted indoors the following seeds bought at [[http:// |
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
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+ | On March 4th, I planted indoors the following seeds bought at [[http:// | ||
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+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
+ | * One pot of [[michka: | ||
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+ | On March 25th, I planted indoors many others seeds (156 exactly). Detailed report is coming... | ||
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+ | ====Sowing Instructions==== | ||
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+ | I started direct sowing of a few vegetables on the balcony. Here are the information I gathered to sow [[michka: | ||
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+ | ====Getting seeds==== | ||
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+ | * Fraternités Ouvrières, Mouscron | ||
+ | * Graines de Troc website | ||
+ | * Plant Catching website | ||
+ | * From friends | ||
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+ | ====What I would like to plant==== | ||
==Creepers== | ==Creepers== |