What Is Vertical Gardening?
What if I told you that you can harvest as much fresh fruit and vegetables as youd like from your very own garden with only the space on your balcony or windowsills. You might think it is a crazy idea right? With todays vertical gardening techniques, you can grow your own produce as long as you have somewhere sunny, be it a balcony, porch, or alleyway along a fence. With vertical gardening, you train your veggies to grow up, not out. So what exactly is vertical gardening and why can it give you season after season of satisfaction and impressive crops of fruits and vegetables? Vertical gardening relies on the fact that plants will grow where ever there is light, nutrients, and support. This means that even if your cucumber vine is growing from a pot straight up a wall, it will still produce! Long ago, it was commonly thought that only with expansive amounts of land can one grow produce. The problem was that before the advent of pots, irrigation, and soil conditioners, each plant relied
By Janet Combs Have you ever dreamed of harvesting your own fruit and vegetables, fresh from the garden? Have you ever baulked at rising produce prices, and spent an arm and a leg on fresh produce only to take it home and find it bland? Have you ever wished you had a spacious backyard to grow your own corn and strawberries, but gave up your dreams because you work in the city and live in an apartment? What if I told you that you can harvest as much fresh fruit and vegetables as you’d like from your very own garden with only the space on your balcony or windowsills. You might think it is a crazy idea right? With today’s vertical gardening techniques, you can grow your own produce as long as you have somewhere sunny, be it a balcony, porch, or alleyway along a fence. With vertical gardening, you train your veggies to grow up, not out. So what exactly is vertical gardening and why can it give you season after season of satisfaction and impressive crops of fruits and vegetables? Vertical g
Have you ever dreamed of harvesting your own fruit and vegetables, fresh from the garden? Have you ever baulked at rising produce prices, and spent an arm and a leg on fresh produce only to take it home and find it bland? Have you ever wished you had a spacious backyard to grow your own corn and strawberries, but gave up your dreams because you work in the city and live in an apartment? What if I told you that you can harvest as much fresh fruit and vegetables as youd like from your very own garden with only the space on your balcony or windowsills. You might think it is a crazy idea right? With todays vertical gardening techniques, you can grow your own produce as long as you have somewhere sunny, be it a balcony, porch, or alleyway along a fence. With vertical gardening, you train your veggies to grow up, not out. So what exactly is vertical gardening and why can it give you season after season of satisfaction and impressive crops of fruits and vegetables? Vertical gardening relies o
Vertical gardening is a gardening technique that utilizes various resources to allow plants to extend upward rather than grow along the surface of the garden. In some cases, no support frame of any kind is required, as the plant naturally grows upward. However, other plants such as ivy and some vegetables require the presence of stakes, cages, or trellises in order grow vertically. One of the more common examples of vertical gardening for decorative purposes is the use of ivy in a landscaping design. Ivy is a natural runner and will easily adhere to a number of difference surfaces. It is possible to utilize a vertical garden wall as the medium for the ivy, allowing the vines to run across and up the wall. If a vertical garden wall is not available, it is possible to use fencing, a trellis or even a series of poles to provide a horizontal running track for the vines. In terms of growing food plants in a vertical garden, cucumber, bell pepper, and tomato plants are excellent examples of
Video Transcript What is Vertical Gardening? I’m Doug Smiddy of Smiddy’s Gardening Services here on behalf of expertvillage.com and welcome to my garden. Today we’re here to talk about low maintenance gardening. Since we’ve decided we’re going to keep our garden small and manageable so it’s not too much of a burden and it always stays fun, another suggestion I have for you is think of growing your garden vertically, use the space up and down. For instance we have these lovely pole beans here, now string beans in general could be grown on a pole bean which uses up this space. Imagine if this was laid down across this garden, how much space it would take up. But this way I could get a voluminous amount of beans all season long by planting these pole beans varieties as oppose to a bush bean. Bush beans are going to be individual plants, they’re going to take up twice as much room. So you can use pole beans like that and also behind me on these peas I’m using a vertical space to let them c
