Greenery at home, too
Do you like plants and flowers? Do you want to put in your own grain of sand to make Barcelona a greener, healthier and more sustainable city?
Here we offer resources to fill balconies, terraces and rooftops with plants. We’ll help you green your home!
How can you do it?
- You can put plants on your balcony and make Barcelona a greener and healthier city.
Plants on balconies and terraces help to improve the city’s air quality and create microhabitats for local fauna, like beneficial insects and birds.
This enhances the city’s biodiversity and helps to improve the environmental conditions to combat the effects of climate change.
- You can plant a home vegetable garden.
Another good option is to cultivate a home vegetable garden: by doing so, you further green the city and improve its biodiversity, while also helping to rethink our food model, value the consumption of local fruits and vegetables and promote a healthier and more sustainable diet.
How can you plant a home vegetable garden?
With this list of videos, you can begin a home vegetable garden starting from scratch.
Where to begin?
Space, sunshine, water, substrate and calendar: basic elements for beginners in urban allotments.
Seeds and seedlings: How to cultivate them?
How to get seeds and turn them into seedlings to cultivate your allotment.
How to plant in soil?
Strategies for ensuring good performance of allotments on soil.
How to feed a home garden?
Key for composting at home or in the allotment and making your own organic fertilizer.
How to plant to harvest throughout the year?
Tasks to sow and plant each season of the year.
How to have a healthy allotment naturally?
Key questions for identifying diseases in allotments and natural treatments for combating them.
Let’s talk allotments
This section has resources and tools for creating a home vegetable garden or cultivating community allotments.
Session 01
The importance of fertilising soil and alternatives that lower the impact of current models.
Session 02
Agricultural biodiversity and preservation of the agroecological heritage.
Session 03
Agricultural biodiversity and preservation of the agroecological heritage.
Session 04
Viewing the urban allotment as an island of biodiversity whose balance contributes to the allotment’s health.