Left: Sweet snacks with a view: Strawberries out of focus in the back, and one of my favorite wildflowers in focus in the front. Right: Four types of salad collected from the balcony. These and all other photographs by author Luciano Abriata.

A free grocery store at my disposal in my balcony

Salad, small sweet fruits and aromatics hardly fail you in the edible garden, not even if you grow them on a balcony.

As a 2022 resolution, I set myself to grow edibles in my balcony garden. Not for the economy, because I don’t really think I will save, but for the fun, for the awe, for the feelings.