Garden in a city apartment

With age, even avid gardeners becomes difficult to handle your vacation site. And then some plants a garden, without leaving the apartment.
 For the device in a garden apartment required boxes. They can be made from the boards 25-30 cm in width, 60 cm in height, length also depends on the width of the balconies or terraces. Boxes installed in the ends of the loggias, each is desirable to plant no more than two plants of cucumber or tomato. If these accounts do not, you can buy plastic flower containers deep, preferably terracotta or green, or boxes used for food storage (40 * 40 * 50 cm). These tanks are filled with drainage (expanded clay or crushed brick), a quarter of the volume.
 For a better income to the roots of the air tank in the corner put the plastic tube about 1.5 cm in diameter. The lower end of the tube should be in the drainage, the upper the same - higher than a side-box of 1 cm. Then, the drainage is laid fertile soil, which can be brought from the country or buy in the store. Also, for an apartment garden needs mulch (straw, bark or cut, it can also be bought at the store colors) to reduce evaporation of moisture from the box, but in order to extend the garden season - artificial light bulbs and heaters. Include them in the fall and early spring.

 The range of seed peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers today is very diverse. If the space is small, we can recommend the tall varieties and hybrids. Cucumbers and tomatoes is better not to sow and plant out as seedlings. When it takes root, it should tie up and pull up the taut ropes attached to the eaves.
 From small-fruited tomatoes are suitable for the urban garden: Cio-Cio-San, De Bara (yellow and red), Fireworks, Boat, yellow and red cherry. Next to be planted, and large-fruited tomatoes: Bullish forehead, Bear Paw or sredneplodnye: mandarin, Southern Tan, Vladimir.
 Around the tomatoes you can plant the coriander, fennel, lettuce, onion on greens. These plants will have time to grow before they gain the strength and the tomatoes begin to shade the soil.
 In another box you can put self-pollinating hybrids of cucumber: First Class, Bidretta, boy-with-finger, Passarebo. In each box should be planted on two different plants. It is best not to plant cucumbers, which are pollinated by bees, since no one in them to pollinate, and they do not give a good harvest.
 On the south window can be grown hybrids of sweet pepper: Filippok, Chanterelle, dwarf.
 Since vegetables are grown in boxes, you have to very carefully monitor them very carefully refer to the process of irrigation.
 A month after planting should be undertaken first nitrogen fertilizer ammonium nitrate (solution prepared as follows: 1 full tablespoon of ammonium nitrate is diluted in 10 liters of water), under each plant should pour half a liter.
 After 14 days, water the plant ash extract (taken a full glass ash infused in 10 liters of water) or to make a half a handful each culture for wood ash, slightly closing up of the soil. Three weeks to brew double superphosphate (taken 1 cup finely ground fertilizer, pour 1 liter is enough hot water is maintained daily, and then filtered and diluted 10-fold). Watered: by 200-250 ml of the infusion at each plant.