the Incredible ingenuity demonstrated Muscovites in times of isolation. Those who are forced to stay at home, but I got bored by nature, create a green area right on the balcony. And for fantasy there is no limit: you can grow tomatoes, lemons or even arrange a mini-apiary.
the isolation Vladimir started to grow tomatoes, the balcony turned into a greenhouse.
“This is a very good semi-wild variety of tomato, it is known in the country as “the Bashful blush”. Loved by gardeners because it is high yielding variety and unpretentious,” explains Vladimir Lukanin.
Most of the time together with the family Vladimir is now trying to hold in the country. To tomatoes on the balcony of a city apartment not faded, he set up an automated watering system. So to grow crops can now be remotely.
Since the smartphone we connect our pump, and that ran the water.
to Monitor the growth of tomatoes also available online. To do this, the tripod is a simple smartphone.
– People for a very long time is the isolation in the apartment. After all this, though dwelling, but not alive. And when a person grows a plant is any living organism.
Olga to survive the isolation also helps plants. On the balcony she grows roses, marigolds, viola’s.
“I’m a gardener, I know nothing about flowers and about growing, I would hope that they still survive and please me,” says Olga Tretyakova.
But some vegetables, berries and flowers are not limited. Andrew Kozarski on the balcony made a real beehive.
“I collected 25 kilograms of honey. There are no harmful substances, it is specifically tested for heavy metals. Beautiful willow honey,” says Andrew Kozarski.
According to Andrew, the neighbors bees don’t fly, because I know where home is.
In Moscow, the bees very little. Besides the fact that they give me honey, they also pollinate plants in the city. Manywow entomophilous plants, that is, those that are pollinated only by insects, they support the life of these plants,” explains Andrew Kozarski.
Sitting in may days in the apartment without fresh air very difficult. Therefore a plant for balconies and adapt them to spend as much time as possible.
Catherine is a journalist. She often worked from home before mode isolation. But her friend, too, Catherine — the flight attendant, was forced to leave because of the pandemic. Now working remotely as a sales Manager.
“I Have not a very large room, it is dark enough, there is bad air gets inside. Of course, I have everything I need for work and for life, but why not get on the balcony, if you have a large balcony, this bright,” says Catherine Gradenko
take a breath of fresh air from the comfort of home. The balconies on the isolation became the most visited place in the apartment. Now this is the office, a cafe, gym and even a registry office at the same time.
Text: “to Conduct-Moscow”
