Gardening in Boxes – Your Mobile Vegetable Garden

Boxes are excellent for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and even fruit in a small space. Children can gain their first experiences in their own mini-garden. KOSMOS author and garden blogger Melanie Öhlenbach has also been using these containers on her balcony for her "box greens" for many years.

In her webinar, you will learn how versatile a box garden can be and what is important for this type of gardening.

Webinar topics

• DIY: Materials and accessories
• Into the box: How to fill and plant boxes correctly - step by step
• Box greens: Plant selection for the box garden
• Beautifully colorful: Creating mixed cultures
• Harvest all year round: Tips for crop rotation in the box garden

Our speaker

Melanie Öhlenbach works as a freelance journalist, primarily writing about gardening and sustainability. Since 2013, she has been growing up to 50 different varieties of herbs, vegetables, fruits, and flowers on her big-city balcony. On her blog Kistengrün, she gives urban gardeners tips for their own mini-garden. In early 2020, her first book "Mein Stadtbalkon" was published by KOSMOS-Verlag. At the GLS Bank Sustainability Blog Award 2018, she took 3rd place in the 'Most Sustainable Blogger of the Year' category with Kistengrün.