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Gardening While Renting: The Beginning of the End
I haven’t had a chance to write up a balcony garden update for this season yet and now I am faced with dismantling it all and bringing an end to my balcony garden. I have mixed feelings about this, but when you are gardening while renting, sometimes you just don’t have a choice in the matter! Balcony Garden Update: Faced with taking it all apart Gardening while renting has come with a lot of challenges and this latest one seems like the final straw. I live in an older wood framed building where the property managers have become concerned with the stability of our balconies. Because of this, there have…
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Gardening While Renting: What I’m Harvesting from my Balcony Garden
This year’s been an exciting one for me as I’ve had a new balcony to enjoy and create a garden space in. It has been a lot of fun to experiment with growing tons of different plants to see what works and what doesn’t. As Krista mentioned in her backyard garden update, the weather this year has been hard to keep up with, so my gardening learning curve has been steep this year! What I’ve been Harvesting from my Balcony Garden Challenging weather and my lack of gardening know-how has led to some interesting growing experiences. I’ve been told by a friend that I’m really good at growing leaves because…
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Gardening While Renting: How My Balcony Garden Is Growing
I’m in love with my balcony garden! It has brought me so much joy this spring as I’ve been watching my plants grow–even though I’ve been making all sorts of gardening mistakes as I attempt to grow over 10 different types of plants. While I haven’t had any big harvests of veggies yet, I wanted to share the progress (and my excitement!) of my little balcony garden with you. 2022 Balcony Garden Planting Update Gardening mistakes are par for the course, and even with all of them, I’ve been having a lot of fun with my variety of plants. It is so satisfying to see the seeds sprout and then…
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Gardening While Renting: New Year, New Hope, New Balcony Garden
Last year I had an unexpected move, which happily landed me in a wonderful apartment with a beautiful balcony. Was I ever excited when I laid eyes on that balcony! All I could think about was what an amazing balcony garden I could have and all the vegetables I could grow. Gardening while renting can be a challenge, but this new space gives me hope for a thriving container garden. Why I’m excited for my Balcony Garden For the last couple of years I’ve been attempting to garden in my rental units in the smallest of spaces. With the challenges that came with small space gardening also came a lot…
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Gardening While Renting: An Early Farewell to Year Two
This was the second year that I’ve been attempting to garden while renting. I shared about the beginning of this year’s garden back in April. I had high hopes for my few little plants I was able to plant in my tiny place. This year hasn’t gone as planned in a large number of ways and my little garden is no exception. Gardening While Renting Year Two Recap For this year’s garden I chose to plant some things that I thought would be fun to grow. Dill Beets Kale Seed paper with a mystery plant I made a bunch of mistakes right from the start, such as not paying attention…
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Gardening While Renting: The Start of Year Two
I’ve always loved the thought of having my own vegetable garden, but since I’m a renter without my own plot of land, I wasn’t sure it was possible. Last year, I decided to take advantage of my current front stoop and have my first attempt at gardening while renting. You can read all about how that year went in my recap post for the gardening while renting series. While I didn’t yield a huge harvest (as you can imagine in less than one square foot of space!) I still found gardening incredibly rewarding. That’s why I am diving in and giving it another go this year! Deciding to Plant Again…
