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.
Vertical gardening is not new. It has been practiced for thousands of years.
A garden trellis has long been popular for climbing roses and other vining
types of flowers. Trellises date back to at least the Roman Empire. Your
parents and grandparents practiced vertical gardening indoors. In the 1950s
and 1960s indoor plant poles were "the rage". Every home had to have
a plant pole with hanging baskets filled with plants. Whether they knew it
or not, they were practicing vertical gardening.
Today, common examples of supports for vertical gardens, are poles and fencing.
Fencing is commonly used to grow vining garden 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, trellis or arbor. 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
(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 wide 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 or 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- The Agro Tower is a neat vertical garden planter. Each pot
is 19" X 19' X 19". It's perfect for limited space. Use an Agro Tower 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, to add loads of vertical gardening
space.
Buy Agro Tower Planter
 Balcony and Deck Grow Station
- Use the 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 plastic cover, this unit is great fro frost protection.
When the weather warms, remove the cover and use it to grow flowers and
vegetables on your deck vertically.
Buy this Growing Rack Greenhouse
Tip: There are 4 tier units on the market. Many manufacturers have
stopped making them, as they are VERY susceptible to tipping over in moderate
to strong winds.
 VeggiCage - This revolutionary cage expands
a whopping 7ft of vertical gardening! Try them on sweet peas, tomatoes,
pole beans, cucumbers, and other climbing flowers and vegetables.
Veggie Rings easily attach to a regular garden stake. Use one, two
or three, to hold up tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and other plants. The plant's
foliage hides the rings from view.
More on Veggie Cages and Veggie Rings
Buy Veggie Cages and Veggie Rings
Potato Bag Planters - 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 plants to climb upon.
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