Since last fall, I have been gardening on my balcony without using fertilizers or pesticides.

By enriching the soil and the bacteria that live in it, without using fertilizers and pesticides and doing nothing extra.
It was an eye-opener for me to realize that it was so easy and natural to grow vegetables and farm dairy.

However, I didn’t think it would be able to adapt to my balcony, so I gave it the usual pesticides and fertilizers.

Photo from July 17th last year.

Last summer was an unusually hot day, and even on my balcony,
My cherry tomatoes, super geranium champion “Orange”, hydrangea, and coprosma have all gone bad.
Hedera helix, Calibrachoa unodouble ‘Orange’, Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’, and Gazania have scale insects.

I thought that there was nothing I could do about the former, but I tried my best to remove the latter with a cotton swab every day, but there was no end in sight.
Although a certain famous pesticide was introduced, the number decreased, but they did not disappear.

There was a comparison of strains that were given pesticides and fertilizers,''strains that were given only fertilizer,” and strains that were not given anything.'' After seeing that theplants that I didn’t feed anything to” were the most energetic and had no insects, I decided to try using fertilizer-free and pesticide-free plants.

A lot of butterflies come to my balcony,
I always felt sorry that he couldn’t breathe in because I was giving him pesticides, so I guess that was also the reason.

Photo from September 4th last year.

I stopped using pesticides and fertilizers around October, and I think things are going pretty well.

When gerbera plants were given liquid fertilizer, they bloomed better and the flowers were larger.
Is it the mold that has been appearing on the leaves? I think that’s a good thing because diseases like this have disappeared.

However, I am still just getting started and am still experimenting every day.
Since this is a long article, I would like to write about this topic little by little.