• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Know Your Produce
  • Home
  • About
    • Resources
    • Privacy
    • Disclosure
    • Nutrition Disclaimer
    • Work With Us
    • Contact
  • Recipes
    • Vegan Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Breakfast Recipes
    • Snacks
    • Main Dish Recipes
    • Side Dish Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Drinks
  • How To
  • Gardening
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • How To
  • Gardening
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
  • ×

    You are here: Home / How To

    How To Choose the Right Garden Containers for your Balcony Garden

    BY: Courtney PUBLISHED: Aug 16, 2014 2 Comments UPDATED ON: Jan 4, 2018

    This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for more information.
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    pr sample received for review purposes all opinions are our own. this post also contains affiliate links.

     Choosing Garden Containers for your Balcony Garden

    Having a garden of your own is rewarding in many ways.  You can have your own free produce, ensure that the product is pesticide free, and even get to care for your plants and see them grow.  There are plenty of struggles with balcony gardens, for example: no sun, having to do a container garden, no rain water, and most importantly space.

    We shopped around the local plant stores and just couldn’t find the right containers for our balcony container garden.  We found terra cotta, boring plastic, metal, tin, stone or heavy expensive wood containers.  So we took the online route.  We shopped the outdoor section on BrylaneHome and we’re definitely pleased with the products right away.   In the picture above you can see that the container doesn’t sit directly on the ground, allowing water to fall through the bottom.  We also have an issue with rain water sometimes flooding through onto our balcony, that lift also means our plants won’t sit in that dirty rain water that most likely is full of pesticides.

    While you can no longer purchase the smaller planter you can still find the Flower Box with Trellis from BrylaneHome.   Don’t mind all the pinwheels.. that’s what happens when you have a toddler. 🙂  Can you see over in the far top left how our neighbors plant is doing?

    Choosing Garden Containers for your Balcony Garden

    Overall we’re extremely happy with our products from BrylaneHome.  I wish I had a hose to clean the up a bit, but after all it’s a garden, and gardens have dirt.  I wipe them down when we have company, otherwise they look loved and used a bit.

    Choosing Garden Containers for your Balcony Garden

    This little one loves to make sure the garden grows and waters them every morning.  We use an all natural fertilizer as well as soil.

    you may also like:

    • Potato LatkesPotato Latkes
    • Healthy Banana Oatmeal CookiesHealthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies
    • How to Roast Red PeppersHow to Roast Red Peppers
    • Pico De Gallo RecipePico De Gallo Recipe

    More How To

    • red apples with a bit of yellow on them on a knit yellow blanket.
      How to Store Apples
    • wooden basket with bananas, apples, and avocado on a countertop showing how to store avocado and other fruits to ripen the avocados.
      How to Store Avocados
    • hand holding frozen avocado chunks in a reusable silicone stasher bag.
      How to Freeze Avocados
    • hands holding an orange and zesting an orange
      How to Zest an Orange

    POSTED IN: How To

    About Courtney

    Fruit and Veggie lover. I love making produce fun and delicious, not to mention taking tons of pictures in the process! :-)

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Max

      June 02, 2017 at 1:18 pm

      I’ve been looking for some outdoor planters for sale for my wife, and see what I can find. She really likes outdoor planters, and having her own little variation of a garden. I like how you talked about looking at plant stores for outdoor planters for sale and seeing what I can find!

      Reply
      • Chris

        June 19, 2017 at 9:31 pm

        Hope you found some good planters! 🙂

        Reply

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating




    Primary Sidebar

    fall family photo, mother, son, daughter, father.

    Welcome to know your produce.

    Hey there! We're sharing our love for fruits and veggies and making sure that they are in each and every meal.

    More about us →

    sign up for recipes and tips




    Popular Recipes

    • close up of sliced and stacked chocolate zucchini bread on a wooden cutting board with parchment paper on it.
      Chocolate Zucchini Bread
    • peach fritters on a cooling rack.
      Air Fryer Peach Fritters
    • apple bread on a piece of parchment paper on a wooden cutting board.
      Apple Bread
    • close up of cranberry orange shortbread cookies stacked
      Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

    More From The Blog >

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    About

    • Cookie Policy
    • Disclosure
    • Privacy

    Newsletter

    • Sign Up! for emails and updates

    Contact

    • Contact
    • Work With Us

    As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Copyright © 2022 Know Your Produce