Balcony Plants Variety Pack

Do you dream of filling your balcony with plants? Growing your own food in the city? The Franken Farm Balcony Pack is here and filled with five kinds of organic, heirloom seed to get you started on your urban gardening journey. Each variety has been carefully selected to give you a diverse harvest from plants suited to small spaces and low light.

The amount of sun available will be different on each balcony; all these plants need about 6 hours of direct sunlight to grow, though 8 hours or more is ideal. 

Here is a quick description of each plant as well as a very brief list of what materials you will need to grow it:

1) Ibis Red Lettuce: Greens are the easiest thing to grow in a container, and this lettuce is very cold tolerant, so you can start early in the year. You will need a container of soil atleast 6 inches deep; lettuce heads need about 8 inches space to flourish. Plant multiple heads in one large container, or plant smaller pots with one head each.

2) Lemon Basil: Add some flavour to your kitchen with this fragrant herb. I find Lemon Basil much hardier than the typical Genovese. You will need a container atleast 8 inches deep; plants need about one foot of space to flourish. 

3) Cherokee Trail of Tears Pole Bean: The most vigorous and productive climbing plant at the farm. Plant this bean straight into at least 8 inches deep of soil, put it beside something it can climb (railing, trellis, big stick, old ladder, anything!), and watch it go wild. Space plants about 6 inches apart. Eat fresh, or let the pods dry outside & harvest the dried beans for a unique treat.

4) Whippersnapper Dwarf Cherry Tomato: These petite tomato plants (around 1.5 feet tall) mature very quickly and deliver surprisingly large harvests of rosy pink cherry tomatoes. To grow this plant, you will need to start seeds under a growlight at the end of April. Then when they are ready to go outside, you will need a big container of soil that is atleast 2 feet deep.

5) Calendula: This flower is edible, herbal & beautiful. Put its petals in salad, use its leaves for homemade lotion and tea, and enjoy the pollinators its flowers attract. Similar to instructions for Lemon Basil: container atleast 8 inches deep, one foot of space per plant.

At Franken Farm we believe heirloom veggies aren't just for country folks; they belong everywhere and to everyone.