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Edible Flowers
Garden to table

Edible Flowers

Not only they add a splash of color and detail to salads, but they are also quite tasty.

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Coloured Giant Beans
What to grow

Coloured Giant Beans

Such a beautiful pink & black pattern. I bought the seeds at the market in Greece.

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Bolted radish = flowers and seeds
Balcony updates

Bolted radish = flowers and seeds

The radish flowers are becoming plump pods which will give me seeds for next year. The trick is to let more than one plant go to seed.

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Plant ID app that works
Balcony updates

Plant ID app that works

I grew up in a whole different climate and continent. The local wild plants here are foreigners to me.

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Chives: tasty perennial herbs
What to grow

Chives: tasty perennial herbs

The flowers are edible too. Pretty pink and taste like… chives.

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Wild flower id challenge
DIY projects

Wild flower id challenge

It’s easier to identify plants when you have both flowers and leaves. I used this thick book to help me.

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Balcony salad
Garden to table

Balcony salad

Colorful cherry tomatoes, spicy rockets and beautiful edible nasturtium flowers. All from the balcony.

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Bee restaurant
Balcony updates

Bee restaurant

Consider letting some of your urban crops go to flower and provide food for our friends the pollinators.

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Weather for coffee outside
Balcony updates

Weather for coffee outside

I can now bring my laptop outside and work in the sun, even though last year perennials are not yet re-blooming in the balcony.

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sunset + sunflowers
Community gardens

sunset + sunflowers

Growing on the tarmac. This community garden was once an airfield.

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Current balcony blossoms
Balcony updates

Current balcony blossoms

Lots of color! Hope the cucumber is being lucky on the bee-Tinder, so far only female flowers.

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Lenara Verle

Balcony and allotment gardener in Berlin.

I have a permaculture design certificate and enjoy creating sustainable and ecological urban garden spaces. Windows, balconies, roofs and yards, small or large, can become a green oasis with delicious fresh edibles.

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