great your garden could look by directing your vining plants to the areas you want them to grow!
Cucumbers and other vining plants naturally love to “climb” and will happily grow and fill up your vertical garden.
For the non-vining plants, all you need is a simple setup that allows you to grow them vertically. This can be a setup that involves shelves or trays with soil that allows you to insert plants. You can find many different designs for vertical gardens
Remember, you can either build your own or buy some pre-made kits, depending on the scale of your vertical gardening dreams!
Your entire gardening space can have towers, trays or walls filled with vertical gardening specimen. It’s important that you know which types of plants to grow together, because some can be more beneficial than others – especially when it comes to attracting certain bugs (More on that in Chapter 9 on pest management).
Likewise, having the wrong plants near each other can cause enemy bugs to attack your precious plants. Your vertical garden can be used to grow anything you want, including flowers, plants, herbs, vegetables and fruits.
The concept of a vertical garden isn’t hard to comprehend. Once you see how a vertical garden is set up, you’ll see that it’s exactly like a horizontal garden, but a lot easier to start and maintain. Plus vertical gardens take up a lot less space!
C HAPTER 2. W HY P LANT A V ERTICAL G ARDEN?
There are many reasons why people choose to grow a vertical garden. Whether they’re intrigued by the style or require additional space for growing, vertical gardens are definitely an answer.
One big reason why folks choose to plant a vertical garden is because they lack sufficient space. If you live in an urban or suburban area that has a very small yard or no yard at all, you can use vertical gardening to produce a massive amount of food and beautiful plants where conventional gardening may be impossible
Urban Living
If you live in a city, you can still enjoy vertical gardens! Here’s how:
Vertical Gardening on Your Balcony or Patio
Don’t fret if you have a small condo or apartment in the city that has no green space. The beauty about vertical gardening is that it can be built anywhere you have enough space. With a vertical garden, a foot of space is enough to start a garden!
Vertical gardens work great in small places and you will be surprised how much food you can grow in a tiny space when you grow vertically!
If you have a balcony or patio that has free space, you can transform the entire area into a vertical garden. A lot of people in urban areas have taken to this idea. Just take a look at many of the balconies that you find in major cities throughout the United States. You may see all types of plants growing on them.
In fact, I personally have a Tower Garden® by Juice Plus+® vertical aeroponics system (learn more in Chapter 11) growing on my balcony. It turns my otherwise “dead space” of a concrete balcony into a massive food-producing haven. In just a 2 foot by 2 foot area, my balcony vertical garden produces fresh, delicious, organic tomatoes, mint, purslane, lettuces (4 kinds!), strawberries, cucumbers, watermelons, parsley and snap peas!
That one vertical garden has saved me about $50 a month in grocery bills too!
Vertical Gardening on Your Rooftop
If you weren’t lucky enough to get an apartment that has a balcony or patio, then you may be able to use the rooftop. Make sure to speak with the management of your building to make sure that it’s alright. If so, you can begin planning out an area of the rooftop for your vertical garden.
In fact, rooftop gardens are cropping up in urban areas all over the world - both for fun and commercial use.
Video Extra: Check out this video of a chef in New York City who uses Vertical Gardening on the rooftop of his restaurant to produce several TONS of fresh produce every year! You can watch it on Youtube:
Cucumbers and other vining plants naturally love to “climb” and will happily grow and fill up your vertical garden.
For the non-vining plants, all you need is a simple setup that allows you to grow them vertically. This can be a setup that involves shelves or trays with soil that allows you to insert plants. You can find many different designs for vertical gardens
Remember, you can either build your own or buy some pre-made kits, depending on the scale of your vertical gardening dreams!
Your entire gardening space can have towers, trays or walls filled with vertical gardening specimen. It’s important that you know which types of plants to grow together, because some can be more beneficial than others – especially when it comes to attracting certain bugs (More on that in Chapter 9 on pest management).
Likewise, having the wrong plants near each other can cause enemy bugs to attack your precious plants. Your vertical garden can be used to grow anything you want, including flowers, plants, herbs, vegetables and fruits.
The concept of a vertical garden isn’t hard to comprehend. Once you see how a vertical garden is set up, you’ll see that it’s exactly like a horizontal garden, but a lot easier to start and maintain. Plus vertical gardens take up a lot less space!
C HAPTER 2. W HY P LANT A V ERTICAL G ARDEN?
There are many reasons why people choose to grow a vertical garden. Whether they’re intrigued by the style or require additional space for growing, vertical gardens are definitely an answer.
One big reason why folks choose to plant a vertical garden is because they lack sufficient space. If you live in an urban or suburban area that has a very small yard or no yard at all, you can use vertical gardening to produce a massive amount of food and beautiful plants where conventional gardening may be impossible
Urban Living
If you live in a city, you can still enjoy vertical gardens! Here’s how:
Vertical Gardening on Your Balcony or Patio
Don’t fret if you have a small condo or apartment in the city that has no green space. The beauty about vertical gardening is that it can be built anywhere you have enough space. With a vertical garden, a foot of space is enough to start a garden!
Vertical gardens work great in small places and you will be surprised how much food you can grow in a tiny space when you grow vertically!
If you have a balcony or patio that has free space, you can transform the entire area into a vertical garden. A lot of people in urban areas have taken to this idea. Just take a look at many of the balconies that you find in major cities throughout the United States. You may see all types of plants growing on them.
In fact, I personally have a Tower Garden® by Juice Plus+® vertical aeroponics system (learn more in Chapter 11) growing on my balcony. It turns my otherwise “dead space” of a concrete balcony into a massive food-producing haven. In just a 2 foot by 2 foot area, my balcony vertical garden produces fresh, delicious, organic tomatoes, mint, purslane, lettuces (4 kinds!), strawberries, cucumbers, watermelons, parsley and snap peas!
That one vertical garden has saved me about $50 a month in grocery bills too!
Vertical Gardening on Your Rooftop
If you weren’t lucky enough to get an apartment that has a balcony or patio, then you may be able to use the rooftop. Make sure to speak with the management of your building to make sure that it’s alright. If so, you can begin planning out an area of the rooftop for your vertical garden.
In fact, rooftop gardens are cropping up in urban areas all over the world - both for fun and commercial use.
Video Extra: Check out this video of a chef in New York City who uses Vertical Gardening on the rooftop of his restaurant to produce several TONS of fresh produce every year! You can watch it on Youtube:
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