Vertical Gardens
When it comes to vertical gardening, the sky is the limit. Vertical gardening
uses space....literally. Instead of planting horizontally in your garden,
a vertical garden grows plants up, or down. To grow vertical gardens, you
need some kind of support, to allow your plants to grow upward, instead of
along the ground.
Vertical gardening is not new. Outdoors, it has been practiced for hundreds,
if not thousands of years. For example, a garden trellis has long been popular
of for climbing roses and other vining types of flowers. It dates back to
at least the Roman Empire. Your parents and grandparents practiced vertical
gardening indoors. In the 1950s and 1960s indoor plant poles were very popular.
It seemed like almost every home had them. It allowed homeowners to grow
a number of plants in hanging pots and baskets, using almost no floor space.
Today, some common examples of supports for vertical gardens, are poles and
fencing. Fencing is commonly used to grow vining crops like peas, vining
varieties of beans, cucumbers, and many squashes. A wide variety of vining
flowers grow up with the support of a fence. Poles are also common supports
for vertical gardening. The most common example of this is bean poles. Another
method of vertical gardening utilizes poles and plastic netting, or pest
netting. Vining crops grow up the netting, and are supported by the netting.
Did you know? When you use a hanging basket, or a hanging flower pot,
you are practicing vertical gardening. These hanging plants are very popular,
both indoors and out.
A growing variety of creative planters are available for vertical gardening.
Some are attached to walls, for use on patios and balconies. This opens up
gardening possibilities to practically everyone.
Vertical gardens can grow down, too. Put a planter on a deck. Let
a vining crop grow downward off the deck. This works great with cucumbers,
miniature pumpkins, beans and vining flowers, like Cardinal Climber.
 Agro
Tower- Here's a neat vertical garden planter. each pot is 19" X
19' X 19". It's perfect for growers with limited space who want to grow non
-vining crops. Use it for a wide variety of flowers vegetable,and herbs.
Try strawberries in it, too. You can stack three to five heavy duty pots
planters to add loads of vertical gardening space.
Buy Agro Tower Planter
Unique and new! These vertical post planters, make great vertical
gardens. They fit on any 2X4, 4X4 or 4X6 post.
 VeggiCage - This revolutionary cage expands
a whopping 7ft! Stores flat in almost no space. Try them on sweet peas, tomatoes,
pole beans, and other climbing climbing flowers and vegetables.
Buy VeggiCages
Pest Netting - tied to poles, makes a great fencing
support for your plants to climb up on. |
