Diy
3 guides tagged Diy, from first steps to advanced care.
- BeginnerGarden Care
Vermicomposting Kitchen Waste on a Balcony (India)
Vermicomposting is just feeding your vegetable peels and tea leaves to red wiggler worms in a covered bin instead of the bin outside your kitchen door, and getting back a dark, crumbly compost you can actually use in your pots. I run one on a corner of my balcony that fits under a stool, and it handles a real share of my household's kitchen waste. Here's how I built it, what I feed it and what I don't, and the mistakes that killed my first attempt.
8 min readRead guide - BeginnerGarden Care
DIY Wicking Self-Watering Pots for a Balcony (India)
A wicking pot is just a container with a water reservoir at the bottom and a cord or strip of fabric pulling moisture up into the soil, so a plant keeps drinking for days after you last watered it. I've built these from old buckets and two-litre bottles for the pots I can't get to every day. Here's exactly how, what goes wrong if you skip a step, and the mosquito risk you take on the moment you add standing water to a balcony.
7 min readRead guide - BeginnerGarden Care
The Kitchen-Scrap Liquid Feed I Actually Use on My Balcony Pots
For two years I bought bottled liquid fertiliser every month and my chillies grew about the same as they do now on banana-peel water I make for free. This isn't a miracle cure and it isn't a replacement for real compost or a balanced feed on hungry plants, it's a cheap, steady top-up that uses waste I was throwing out anyway. Here's exactly how I make it, what it's good for, and what it can't do.
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