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Garden shed for my LIttle balcony

gar meanesgar meanes Posts: 8
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I really want to get some gardening in my balcony, but my balcony ain't big enough!!! I was actually planning to get custom raised garden bed in my balcony ( http://inthebackyard.ca/gardens/ ) and I think it would be great. I have already spoke with the executives from In the backyard and got all the arrangements done. What do you guys say? Any experience or suggestions  from the user end?  

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,989

    I agree, check with the building engineers/structural surveyors for your building.  The weight of a large container of soil, plus the water it will hold, plus a person or two on your balcony sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

    What's wrong with a few pots? 

    Otherwise you're just going to have to rent some garden land nearby or save up to move to a place with a garden.

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • gar meanesgar meanes Posts: 8

    Yeah!! I think ! Probably I should get check with an engineer.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 54,358

    Hmmm.....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,989

    I really don't see why Gar needs to grow things on his balcony when he's got a lawn he could dig up .......... it would save all that lawn cutting he was talking about elsewhere image

     

    Gar, do you know Garden Fairy - he/she is another new member from Canada ... you could get him/her to pop around and give you some ideas - he/she is into garden design image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,743

    My experience is that tedious little folk who pretend to engage with a forum to advertise are really more stupid than they think themselves clever.

    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 54,358

    One only needs to look at the 'blurb' he/she has written on the 'about me' page, Hosta...image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,989

    If only they had something interesting to do ......... it's sad isn't it image 

     


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Which is it? A shed or a bed. I didn't have an engineer check my bed....oh no, I'm going to end up in the basement!!

    Canada is very beautiful. Perhaps we should go and take our gardens with us for a once over!image

  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 22,742

    I was wondering about that shed too, pp. You'd have to make sure that you could get the doors open. 

    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,854

    I am having difficulty imagining how big a balcony must be to need a shed to store tools and equipment and how said shed is to be decorated to stop it being an eyesore as well as not blocking light into the windows that presumably sit between the windows and the balcony.

    Baffled.

    Wouldn't mind a trip to Canada though - as long as I can leave my garden behind PP.   The resident and visiting critters wouldn't be allowed in.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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