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<h2>New plants for the balcony orchard and devising ways to fit them all!</h2>
<div><h3>Re-growing salad stems, buying a few key plants, arranging the balcony to maximize space, and building a vertical rack…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><p id="dc7f">I just had a light <i>Caprese</i> salad this evening, consuming some of the leaves of this plant… You can see the trims on the right:</p><figure id="a8f1"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*euvK-3C-RVieyMwL"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="f9b6"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*oEO2TylcheGE64IT"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="fe73">The leaves will keep growing during the summer -it’s only important to remove its flowers as soon as they show up.</p><p id="1d9f">The tomatoes were from the grocery store, but hopefully I will have my own in a month or so. Fingers crossed!</p><h1 id="8f39">Growing salad</h1><p id="4107">And besides corn salad and basil leaves for <i>Caprese</i> salads, the recycled salad keeps growing:</p><figure id="6c3b"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*4n-IRiw2jRNPNvAMVNwz_w.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h1 id="d6d7">Lots of strawberries</h1><p id="c0d1">Strawberries have been living in my balcony for years almost wild, but this time I put them in more sunbathed places.</p><figure id="13c5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*5kj7imKHeKL8t-Ge"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="7fc8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*PKv_Znvvd1Vz7f2A"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h1 id="1bd8">A colorful setting thanks to these snapdragons</h1><figure id="3a09"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Fjl7dZ9xjsVjXvBs"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><figure id="57fa"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*T6tAD5meXpdwhIcU"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="4bac">See here more of my balcony’s snapdragons here:</p><div id="4571" class="link-block">
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<h2>Snapdragons show off in my balcony</h2>
<div><h3>Every year snapdragons bloom in my balcony. But this time they just took it over. And they brought stunning colors with…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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<h2>The summer when small marigolds took over my balcony</h2>
<div><h3>Marigolds (various species of the Tagetes genus) reproduce very easily, grow quite well in both sun and shade, and are…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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<div><h3>On my balcony, every spring I set up a “pond” which is nothing more than a plastic box that I fill up with water. More…</h3></div>
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<h2>A corner of jungle and wildflowers in my balcony</h2>
<div><h3>My balcony has full sunshine all day long, which allows all kinds of local weeds and wildflowers to grow vigorously in…</h3></div>
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