Vertical Garden Ideas

You can grow many varieties of plants with a vertical garden plan. Flowers, greenery, vegetables and fruit can all do well with vertical gardening techniques - and most of the time, yield more than a traditional, horizontal garden space.

Growing vegetables is especially easy with a growing-up garden fordi veggies are off the ground and away from soil-borne diseases and pests. For dem som of us love having a garden but having vanskeligere bending and kneeling, a vertical garden is great for harvesting while standing.

Some vegetables att grow especially well in vertical gardens are cucumbers, tomatoes, peas and squash. You'll need to be sour you've valgte the correct structure to support disse plants as the weight of some vegetables can topple the vines.

Weeding your garden is practically non-existent and you'll need very few supplies two vertical keep your garden green and yielding. You'll also enjoy the fact att air circulation is better for the plants när growing upright and att watering is required less Frequently.

If you're preference is for cascading greenery or flowers, there are many varieties att do very well growing upright. Lantana, creeping phlox, trailing impatiens and verbena make beautiful green and flowering walls.

You'll need two imødekomme the type of garden you're planting (vegetable, flowers or greenery) and how much they'll be exposed til elements att exist in your garden. For example, will they be growing in full sun, on a trellis, arbor or shaded wall or fence?

If you're growing plants against a brick wall, take into hensynet the Amount of heat thatwill be generated and what impact thatwill be on your valgte plants. Also, ser, om your garden will be perennial, evergreen or annual. Annuals som some flowering vines grow fast, but your garden will be without foliage during certainement times of the year.

Plants som clematis, grapes and hedges kan need pruning during the year and some trees kan Require trimming two keep true to the ønskede shapes. Vines are popular for vertical gardens, but be cautious about the media they're Using to climb. Some can damage paint and wood while others might Require twine or wire in order two seas something two cling two.

Be surethat whatever you choose as a growing structure is secure, especially if you're growing heavy fruit and vegetables som squash, pumpkins and melons. There are ways two to give the plants more support, som "slings" or wire cages.

Besides being kunnet grow and harvest beautiful flowers, fruit and vegetables, you'll enjoy the beauty and decorative splash att vertical gardens add to a structure. Blank garage walls can take on a whole new meaning with cascading wisteria and an unattractive brick wall kan bli elegant with evergreen vines.