A vegetable garden on the balcony to stock up on vitamins

Here are some ideas of associations to make stews full of vitamins. Associate :

• branch celery, whose yellow foliage will bring color,
• chilies or peppers, which adapt well to growing in pots provided you have the sun,
• an early cabbage.

You can sow plants such as:

• physalis, very rich in vitamin C,
• spinach, the young leaves of which are eaten,
• turnips, 
• carrots – bells (or miniatures).

“Curly” parsley -more decorative when grown in a pot- or “flat” is also very rich in vitamin C. It can be combined with chives or sorrel. Small fruits such as raspberry, black currant, or gooseberry are also full of nutrients. For that :

• Use frost-resistant pottery (zinc bucket for example), because the plants will spend the winter outside. Earthen pots may burst.
• It is possible to plant several vegetables or fruit trees in the same pot: Hubert, for example, associated a strawberry plant with blackcurrant or sowed a few seeds of peas at the foot of a raspberry. They germinate after a few days and form a pretty palisade after a few weeks!