Toronto Balcony Gardening

Gardening. It is something I work hard at maintaining now. I have a fairly big west facing balcony with lots of sunshine. The downtown CN tower view and the lake view add to my gardening pleasure. I have recycled my kids' plastic swimming pools into containers where a variety of plants grow side by side.

 I have had a bountiful of harvest from this balcony over the past years. Some of the plants I have raised  in containers are, and not limited to Malabar spinach, bitter melon, water leaf, Amaranth, Gotukola, Egyptian Walking Onions, ginger, turmeric, tomatoes, beans, peas, marigolds...the list goes on. There's nothing stopping me from growing the plants that I used to admire in my grandpa's tropical farm.
This year, I'm looking forward to taking you through my gardening journey.
Here are a couple of pictures of my balcony plants for this summer.

Shiso seedlings growing like weed! 

Malabar Spinach or Pasali keerai waiting to be planted