We can help you with all your urban vegetable gardens in Geneva

Yes, you can grow flowers and certain vegetables and herbs on a balcony. We often organize « gardening in a small space« Don’t hesitate to come and get some advice and create a green cocoon on your balcony.

Yes, but one of the key principles is to host a whole ecosytem and plant your plants in the middle. Your « balcony ecosytem » will therefore be limited. On the 7th floor in the city, you can host a whole flying insect ecosystem. (but forget about hedgehogs…)

1m is always infinitely more than 0… So even the smallest plot of land can be used for vegetable production.

• From 5m2 of garden: you’ve got enough to have fun and make a few salads in summer.
• Between 10 and 20m2 of vegetable garden: you’ll be able to grow beautiful salads, and save a lot of money.
• From 100m2 of garden: it starts to get serious! You can eat most of the summer on your vegetable production.

Yes, and given the price of m2 in Geneva, it’s in everyone’s interest to grow as many vegetables as possible to save floor space. In addition to tomatoes and beans, which climb naturally, you can grow cucumbers, melons, squash and malabar spinach.

Check out our events, we regularly organize workshops Gardening in a small space

Both go.

• The soil dries out more slowly. And you don’t have to buy boards, which means you have more money to spend on other things.
• Potager en bacs: It’s lower and less messy for shoes (very practical in schools). Well-signposted planting and walking areas (very common in shared gardens).

The more the better…. But from 30cm you can grow most leafy vegetables and beans. Over 40cm, you can grow all vegetables.

In other words, gardening is a year-round activity! Winter is for pruning and ordering seeds. March is the start of early vegetables in the garden (radishes, onions, peas…). Tomato seedlings in mid-March! In mid-May, all the seedlings join the garden for the start of summer.

A human being consumes about 1 ton of food a year. To live solely from the produce of one’s garden seems to us to be an illusion… So to move towards a form of food autonomy, you’d need a minimum of 1000m2 for 3 people, including 300 m2 of greenhouses. And an average of 15 to 30 hours work per week. (planting, maintenance, preparation, cooking, canning…)

We prefer to think that every kg of food produced locally is just as much oil saved and healthy, free food gained.

If you have 1m2, install a drip and a web cam to monitor it via Bluetooth. It won’t be profitable or even ecological… Profitability depends on surface area. Below 10m, we advise you to grow products that are expensive to buy (herbs, heirloom tomatoes).

Above 100m2, we recommend growing vegetables for food and storage (potatoes, squash, fruit, etc.).

In any case, exceptional vegetables (in addition to not being donated) are becoming increasingly rare on the shelves. And that’s priceless!

No

Even if some plants are very good at getting water from deep underground. Until proven otherwise, plants don’t make water…

If you take the weight, it’s the sweet potato and the taupinambour with not far from 20kg/m2!

If you look at the price, basil is probably the winner. With a COOP price approaching CHF 100/kg, you can quickly make m2 profitable.

Yes! Get in touch with the urban vegetable garden associations in Geneva. They regularly offer free workshops. Also check out our Events page, where we regularly offer free free gardening courses open to all.