A young community dedicated to balcony gardening.
Show off that vertical veggie garden 35 stories high. Or that bucket of potatoes you're proud of. Perhaps some fall mums that have been catching your eye through the sliding door into your living room. Any and all balcony gardens are welcome! Come and show your's off because we love to see it. :)
We also welcome ideas, tips, and items which have helped you in your balcony gardening journey. No balcony? Feel free to join in with your container garden with limited space too!
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Morning glory in a bucket on a balcony. It’s watered automatically by a solar powered gizmo I made too.
1.) Your automatic watering setup is DOPE.
2.) Hope the morning glory doesn't escape. I have a problem with it in my garden and I didn't ever plant it to begin with...
It shouldn’t escape for it has no where to go! It’s on a third story above an asphalt parking lot. I harvested the seeds and took all the plants down just a couple weeks ago.
Hope you have a good time with the seeds 😉. Glad to know they're not escaping outside of your balcony. Pretty good seed haul you got there.
OP here responding to popular demand.
The solar waterer uses a 5v solar panel, a dfrobot charge controller and a Wemos D1 Mini clone board driving a relay. My proudest achievement is the uptime shown in the last pic. 55 days since last reboot and that was an intentional update of the tasmota firmware. All on solar and a 10500mah battery, no external power.
That's really cool! I feel like you and @RoboGroMo will have a lot of garden automation stuff to talk about.
That uptime is impressive - especially considering that it's outside! Is it pumping the water or controlling a valve from the tap?
The three buckets each have different roles (starting from the right): electronics enclosure, water reservoir with a 5v pump, soil. So, no tap or electricity on the balcony. I have to schlep water about once a week, not too bad.
And it leaves a possibility open for rainwater collection, etc. Very cool!
Huge!
That is amazing to see! The morning glories I had in my old apartment I used ollas for watering, I never thought to automate this way.
This rules!! Tell us more about your automatic watering setup! :o