All that glitters is not gold, and consequently even the urban vegetable garden has its downsides. These include pollution, a serious problem in many metropolitan areas of our planet.

Urban Gardens Benefits: the importance of starting a Balcony Garden, 10 reasons why you should not wait any longer.

Vegetable gardens on our balconies help our urban bees and offer them a small natural area where they can carry out their precious work.

Our goal is to make tending a balcony vegetable garden easy, productive and (as we never tire of repeating) sustainable, starting from the materials that are  used to create it.

Building a vegetable garden in a city is no simple task, especially in the case of very small spaces. Those who do not have a terrace or garden will find the space available is often too limited for it to be practical. Most city balconies in northern Italy measure 80 cm in width and 200 cm in length. With such conditions it is fundamental we organise the space well if we want  the vegetable plot garden we build to give us the desired results.

Earth day, greenhouse gas reduction, the use of electric or even hydrogen cars too often are only good intentions which remain unfulfilled;

Even if we decide to grow just a small pot garden, we absolutely must experience growing tomatoes, at least in some seasons. Tomatoes are annual herbaceous plants belonging to the Solanaceae family.

Humus is a complete substance because in addition to various nutrients, it also contains microorganisms that are useful to the plant's root system.

The olive trees begin to cry and their tears are round and green. A green rain. I like to watch the trees rain green.

One summer, a tomato plant appeared in Grandma's garden that I had never seen before.