Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow a tiny rooftop garden on your apartment balcony? In the past, apartment gardening was unheard of. However, if you have enough space and some good advice, you can grow your own vegetables in a space no bigger than a window box.

Most apartment dwellers are limited by space. They want their apartments to be functional, but they don’t want a cramped yard. That’s why some apartment owners have transformed unused rooms into small gardens. One way they’ve done that is by planting tiny rooftop gardens on their walls-with the walls acting as the base for the garden.

The vegetables in a tiny rooftop garden may not be huge plants like cucumbers and tomatoes, but they can grow quite tall if you grow them correctly. A 6m x 5m space should be good enough for growing a small garden to start with. If you are going to use a trellis or hooks to hang your tiny vegetable garden from, then be sure the area is secure so that the weight of the plant doesn’t damage your shingles or fencing. You can find support panels to hang your trellis or hooks at most home improvement stores. Just remember that if the boards come off, you can replace them easily with no cost.

Once you have your soil in place and your tiny rooftop garden in place, the first thing you need to do is to fill it with peat moss, well-rotted garden compost or other organic matter. Any of these will work fine. Once you’ve done that, dig a hole that is one to two feet deeper than the roots of the plants. This will allow the soil to drain without allowing water to pool under the plants.

Now it’s time to plant! The first plant you are going to grow should be a tomato. Tomatoes love the cool conditions offered by a warm climate. To give your tiny rooftop garden a little shape, plant some other dark green vegetables, like radishes or cucumbers as this will also help the garden look like tiny greenhouses.

To help maximize biomass production, let’s go through a couple of gardening tips. First, one thing you can do to make your tiny rooftop garden look like a miniature version of a vine, is to plant tomatoes in bunches. When they are in bunches, it looks like tiny bonsai trees and the vines will produce berries as they go.

Next, don’t forget to limit water. Watering your garden too much is counterproductive. Limit water by only watering the top inch or so of the soil. Don’t water for a couple days after you have watered your plants. This too limits moisture in the soil and will help your perennial plants grow big and strong.

The final gardening tip you’ll want to keep in mind, is to get good soil. Regular soil will have poor spatial repartition, so what you want to do is get a rich compost with plenty of and Nitara. This will make the soil less acidic, which will make it the perfect medium for a variety of plants. Now you can choose between annuals, perennials and bulbs, depending on how much time you want to invest in your garden.

After the garden has been established, it’s a good idea to do some weeding before planting seedlings. Weeding prevents the spread of disease and allows seedlings the chance to develop in the best environment possible. If you have any disease-tolerant plants, they should be weeded before planting seedlings. If you don’t have any disease-tolerant seedlings, you can remove infected plants and clean the area. After you’ve cleaned the area, it’s best to leave the area dry for a day or so before re-anting seedlings.

Plant varieties that are native to your area will naturally improve the richness of your garden. These plants offer many benefits including natural pest control, habitat enhancement and soil fertility. Native plants also limit the amount of weeding you need to do, which means more benefit for the environment. So plant diversity is very important to growing a healthy lawn.

One method many gardeners have used for years is mulching. Mulch provides protection from weeds and keeps the soil moist. However, most homeowners use too much mulch, which can be unhealthy and even toxic for the plants. The best mulch to use is low nitrogen, organic mulch with at least 20% nitrogen. You can also choose from low-water, high-light or bright mulches. Low nitrogen mulches keep your plants from being stressed due to frequent watering; while high-light and bright mulches enhance the color of your plants and help reduce soil water evaporation.