Growing Vegetables on a Balcony
I was trying to grow vegetables in my balcony. First I took some unused buckets, put some soil in it and for two years threw fruit and vegetable peels, egg shells and chicken bones in those buckets and watered it almost everyday. We bought some bhindi seeds (ladyfingers seeds) planted those and waited eagerly. We were not disappointed. They came out looking so eager to grow up.
After a while they start bearing flowers. When I saw the first flower, I was simply elated.
Some of the ladyfingers sprang up soon. Our effort is bearing fruits. 
These are bitter gourd plants. My camera couldn’t catch the small buds it is having right now. Subhanjan you are being missed here. But when it will start having karelas I will post those images in near future.
Two years back, we had a melon from our balcony.
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May 4th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Hi Alka,
You seem to be the girl with magical hands. It indeed feels great and an inexplicable sense of satisfaction, when you get to eat a vegetable grown by your efforts.
Keep going.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Hi,Alka-you’re amazing…such experiments bring such a lot of happiness,na…(I always thought you need a garden to grow these plants)…I’ll surely be trying this out once I’m back in India(Will revert to you for ideas..*smiles*)…and,yes,I remember the melon post..:)
May 19th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Hi,
That’s some amazing stuff you got there! It’s definitely a great feeling!
How do you manage pest control? I tried my hand at home-grown bhindi sometime back too, and although they bore fruit for a few months, they started dying out due to pests
July 5th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Maybe you can do a post again on their progress?
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 am
I accidentally saw your site and was thrilled to see how good u r doing. U should share your experiences for the benefit of people like me. Thanks for showing the way.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I live in a village and work in agriculturing. We produce vegetables in our farms and i try to read everything
about them. This information is very useful for me and i also found another useful guide about vegetables;
http://agricultureguide.org
July 18th, 2010 at 9:45 am
It gives us great pleasure to see the balconies like yous where the green vegetables grow.
Everyone should start the same
July 19th, 2010 at 5:08 am
hi alka. i have developed a recent interest in growing vegetable in my balcony and when i see your blog which subjects the same – it was a pleasure for me to digg in. Wil you pls like to share your experience with pest control
Tks and best of luck with all your future experiments
August 14th, 2010 at 10:41 am
wonderful thing…great work especially for sharing it with everyone n dat 2 with pictures…i am also starting my terrace garden….will love to know more about dos and donts if u like..please contact on the mail address!!
August 25th, 2010 at 8:17 am
HaHA! I have already seen the great thing!!!