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Step 3: Selecting Plants 
 

Once you’ve established the light levels of your balcony you can set about the fun task of selecting suitable plants. If you’re keen to cultivate your own kitchen garden.
•    Herbs such as basil, mint, thyme and chives are a good place to start, whilst plenty of sun will also enable you to grow lettuce, spinach, spring onions and other onions, which have the added benefit of producing pretty, decorative flowers if you let them go to seed.
•    Strawberries will also grow beautifully in a raised BALCONERA container which helps keep them out of reach of soil dwelling slugs and snails. Larger berry plants will thank you for planting them in a large-sized TRIO 30 container, be they raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, blackcurrants or something even more exotic. They will also benefit from the matching Trellis for support. 
•    Tomatoes and Peas will also find their ideal home in a TRIO planter, which has three separate compartments for you to grow different varieties alongside each other. Peas love to link up together for support so you can put a few in one segment and watch them grow tall and strong as the season progresses.
•    Geraniums of all kinds look marvellous trailing over a balcony, whilst, pansies, primroses and spring flowering bulbs will brighten up your day every time you look out of your window onto your beautified balcony. 
•    Climbing roses, clematis, sweet peas and honeysuckle are perfect if your goal is to grow things upwards. 

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