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. If you are growing plants down, from a deck, no support
is needed, as long as the vine can support the fruit.
Vertical gardening is not new. Outdoors, it has been practiced for thousands
of years. For example, a garden trellis has long been popular 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
every home had to have a plant pole. 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 flower, vining garden crop grow downward off the deck. This works
great with cucumbers, peas, 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.
This vertical planter is very popular as a strawberry tower. You can stack
three to five heavy duty pots planters, to add loads of vertical gardening
space.
Buy Agro Tower Planter
 Balcony and Deck Grow Station
- Use this Grow Station on your balcony, deck or patio, to extend the growing
season, spring and fall. The Grow Station is a unique combination of a cold
frame, a mini-greenhouse, and a work bench. You can also use it as a storage
unit.Your seed starts and deck plants will love it. When the weather warms,
keep the doors and top open, and use it as a plant rack, to grow your favorite
plants.
Buy this Grow Station
 2- Tier Growing Rack Greenhouse
- With a removable palstic cover, this unit is great fro frost protection.
When the weather warms, rewmove the vcover and use it gto grow flower sand
vegetabels on your deck vertiacally.
Buy this Growing Rack Greenhouse
 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.
Veggie Rings are new to the market. They easily attach to a regular
garden stake. Use one, two or three to help hold up tomatoes, peppers, eggplants
and other plants. The plants foliage hides the rings from view. It keeps
fruits and flowers off the ground.
More on Veggie Cages and Veggie Rings
Buy Veggie Cages and Veggie Rings
Potato Bag Planters - Now your can grow potatoes on your patio or
deck.
Potato Bag Planter
Fence Netting - tied to poles, plastic pest netting
also makes a great fencing support for your plants to climb up on. |
