Brickell Life Balcony Garden

The Brickell Life Balcony Garden is starting to take shape. While we'll continue to make our treks over to the Pinecrest Gardens Farmers Market on Sundays to visit and buy from Bee Heaven Farm and Farmer Margie, we decided this year to see how and what we could grow in a small space on our balcony. We're taking the idea of local and sustainable about 100 feet up in the air off Biscayne Bay in a 8x4 foot space.

After researching some different growing mediums and methods, we settled on an organic container garden called Earth Box. It's this great maintenance-free growing system that controls soil conditions and eliminates guesswork while using less fertilizer and water. So far, its proved to be an ideal solution for an urban gardner with limited space.

In addition to the Earth Boxes, we have several potted plants and herbs growing as well. As of today, we've got seven heirloom tomato plants, romaine lettuce, japanese eggplant, carrots, two types of basil, oregano and flat leaf parsley.

Can't wait for the first harvest of the season and to get into the Brickell Life Test Kitchen with some ingredients that I pick just seconds earlier outside the kitchen sliding glass door. We'll keep you posted with updates from time to time on how we're doing.