The urban environment is rewarding in the sense that you have everything you need to carry on a great quality of life. The only trouble is that you could lose touch of your “green” side. Even when you have little space to work with because of an apartment lifestyle, you have options to take on.
The first possibility is to include plant life at your window sills, so that the plant life can still get sunlight without you having to install special lighting systems. If you don’t have a window with enough sunlight, you can always use ultraviolet lights to give plants the means of enacting photosynthesis needed for survival. Such lights can come in small sizes if you don’t want a clutter in your apartment.
Getting a community garden added to your apartment complex is easy enough, so long as the complex has some free space in which to do it in. Apartment managers are more than happy to let residents take care of the finer aspects of outside beauty, since they won’t have to pay a company to do so. The complex gets a healthy upgrade, and the apartment owner gains a hobby.
Plants are just for decor- they are for consumption too! You can still have a small food garden in your apartment if you know what types of food will grow best in an enclosed environment. Some have gone as far as growing potatoes in a large bin of soil, although more practical options such as small tomato plants are also available.
Don’t worry about fertilizer if you are short on cash. You can get a chicken if you have a small backyard to provide it. While you would think such a thing would be messy, it actually is an easy process. Some states ban the ownership of a rooster in urban areas, but hens should be just fine. Check with your local laws to see what you can do.
Even long vines that you wouldn’t think would look good in an apartment can look great in a room if expertly placed. The vines can be stretched out to make a border around a room or make for a decorative centerpiece for the living room. Decorative plants are just as good as food bearing plants, and are a sheer joy to maintain over the lonely winter months.
Final Thoughts
An apartment lifestyle doesn’t have to rob you of your yearning for a garden. Just try to get creative in how you create your garden with limited resources. Your local gardening center should have more information on starting a mini garden in your urban setting.
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