Finally(!)... My Container Garden Is Done!

Hello Hivers! Happy Easter!

I hope you are enjoying the holiday with your family and friends. Today, I am sharing here the newly planted greens on my balcony. Can you imagine, we are in the 3rd week of April and it is still cold...6°C (42.8°F) in the morning!

I no longer have a garden since we moved from our former house to a flat about 20 months ago ( the former house had 4 bedrooms too big to clean for a retiree like me, lololols). My 16 sqm balcony now serves as the place for my container gardening. I am used to planting in containers in my former row house. The terrace was located way up near the house roof and no slugs could come and go as they did in the downstairs garden. In the new flat, the harvest last season was very satisfactory, particularly the tomatoes and elongated peppers as well as the eggplants. Please refer to the photo of my peppers below.

Last year´s container peppers... Source

The last time I posted about container gardening was a few weeks ago and I was writing about the new plants I got from the garden center. We thought that Spring had finally sprung. We had around 20°C + at that time and we were so happy about the warm temps. But, the following week had been a disaster! We had minus degrees at night and it snowed for a day. Some leaves of the tomato and the cukes got frozen.

The Old Geraniums....

At any rate, I am hoping that temps will continue to rise. The small onions are now developing nicely... I use the leaves for soups or to garnish the salad. When all the leaves are consumed, the onion bulbs become thin, so I just need to discard them.

My geraniums survived, when we left for Spain last October to escape cold Vienna, I placed them inside the flat and even with little water they survived the winter and now one has already buds (below pic). I love that patina of the one pot . The pots, two of 12 , were painted green and used for the geraniums that were hanging on the wall of the previous garden. The geraniums, which are now 3 years old, started to grow buds (refer to the pic below).

The Berries....

Last year I got a blackberry bush from the garden center... a young plant that immediately grew so fast and is now thriving so stark . The stalks or branches do not have thorns as compared to the raspberries. The raspberry had been a newbie plant taken from my former garden. Now it is starting to grow flowers and eventually the berries. I am excited already because it's on its 2nd year of growing.

The one supported by spiral sticks is the raspberry bush

I also have the celery on top left of the pic...this came from a celery I bought for cooking, tried to plant the base and now it is coming out again wonderfully. Next to it is the rosemary and the last is basil... The oregano is located beside the geraniums, below the herbs are the lettuce I got just the other day.

So these are the veggies in this season.... I got three different tomato varieties including the beefsteak tomatoes (huge ones), cherry tomatoes. I replaced the cucumber that got entangled in the spikes of a succulent , it broke while I was removing it from there and died off.

There are also three pepper varieties , red and yellow bell pepper, the elongated pepper as well as the green bell pepper . I have planted them in the sack of soil temporarily until I get new pots. I didn´t realize I got more peppers which I should not because the balcony is not that big...