Hira Gardening 🌱: My Balcony Garden
Vijay, Pinewood# “Balcony Garden” - the words create a vision of a small spot in your apartment/flat with a couple of flowering plants or pothos (money plants). Many of us think that having a “garden” when you live in an apartment is a paradox. A garden is a large space, possibly in your backyard or in front of your house, with large shade giving trees, some of them maybe even yielding fruits and a few giving bountiful flowers each day. This is not exactly what comes to mind when you think of a “balcony garden” - is it? Well… you are both right and wrong! All of our Hira flats have one decent size balcony - some come with more than one too. Could the balcony be bigger - yes but it is more than sufficient to start testing how green your thumb can be. When I moved to Hira about 5 years back, I was moving from a house that had a large backyard where I was growing all kinds of vegetables and seasonal flowers to having a single balcony where my plants would be competing for space with the c...