Balcony gearing up for summer

You've been a busy man Balcony

Decisions, decisions.... Do you keep your daffodil bulbs over the summer, perhaps heeling them in at the allotment?

It will be spectacular and full of colour as usual.

How on earth you manage to get so many plants in amazes me! I think you need to upgrade to a larger balcony lol :O)

I was a "busy" man that particular day! LOL! Not usually so busy, though the months of May & October tend to be busy months with the change overs for winter to summer bedding & vice versa in the autumn!

@Stera, I do keep the bulbs from year to year as I hate to throw away anything that is still living, especially bulbs! No, I don't take them down to the allotment, the ones in the troughs now generally stay where they are only the ones in the terracotta pots in the rings on the balcony railings have to come out as I need the pots for the summer flowers. They just spend the summer in a plastic bag with some compost in it to keep them a little humid till its time to plant them out again in October!

That's what I'm aiming for, Paul! LOL!

@Oliveoil: I learnt many years ago when I first starting to grow plants on a balcony in Spain that I had to use all the possible space available!

In Spain rings for pots are very common as few people have gardens but most flats have a balcony. People put pots on their balcony railings & I learnt to do the same! I brought the rings back to the UK &, as they are aluminium, have used them ever since - now 15 years in the UK as well as I can't remember how many years I used them in Spain! They are virtually indestructible!

I also grow climbing plants like Morning Glory & Sweet Peas or Climbing Nasturtiums or even runner beans, up strings along the front of the balcony. I have hanging baskets there as well & plants growing on the two end walls as well as a great many pots on the floor & on the bars around the balcony railings.

I even squeeze in a few tomato plants every year!

For my birthday a few days ago my son & daughter-in-law gave me a small greenhouse to put on the balcony! Then my daughter gave me a few small seedling tomato plants without knowing her brother had given me the greenhouse!

love it!!