Vertical gardening
MisterK
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Ideas to use my vertical garden setup with different crops
Comments (3)I usually plant a row of yard-long climbing beans against my fence and allow them to climb string up the fence. This procedure works well; but I lose the back row that could be used for other crops. This coming year I want to build a planter box to mount on the top of the fence and allow the beans to trail down instead of climb. Material: The box will be made from treated wood (though many are against use of treated wood since it has poinson in it to protect from insect damage). The poison is arsenic which occurs in minute levels in the soil. I do not believe that edible plants will absorb the arsenic. Size: I will use 2"X10"X10' boards so the size of the box will be 10 inches deep, 10 inches across and 10 feet long (or the appropriate length between fence posts). Mounting: I am going to attach the box to each fence post at each end of the box with wood screws and to the 2X4 cross-piece on the fence with the same screws. Soil and Drainage: I will drill 1/2 inch holes in the bottom of the box every 6 inches to allow good drainage. In the bottom of the box I will place a layer of small rocks to support drainage without loss of soil. I will make my on soil from 1 part garden soil (purchase on sale from Home Depot, ussually about $2.50 a cubic foot), 1 part humus (purchase on sale from Home Depot, ussually about $2.37 a cubic foot), 1 part top soil (purchase on sale from Home Depot, ussually about $1.37 a cubic foot), and 1 part leaf-mold compost (free from the transfer center). Planting: I will plant two rows of beans staggered, since I want both rows to trail over the same side of the box. The rows will be 3-iches apart and each bean4 inches apart. Underneath the box I will plant a row of bush beans....See MoreVertical garden design and suitable plants
Comments (1)The only plants I can think of are Pothos and Philodendron vines. Were you looking for edibles to row indoors?...See MoreVertical Garden Idea
Comments (0)I just stumbled upon this article and thought folks here might enjoy it. Make a Vertical Garden from Cheap Suet Basket Birdfeeders http://www.therainforestgarden.com/2016/05/make-vertical-garden-from-cheap-suet.html Site has other interesting garden-oriented articles as well...See MoreOpinions on this vertical garden structure being built
Comments (6)For the most part I'm an ornamental gardener, but my grandfather grew both ornamentals and edibles. One frustration we both had with strawberries is that the slugs and snails usually got to them first. So for me one of the significant advantages of growing strawberries vertically would be to suspend them somehow in order to make them inaccessible, or less accessible, to the terrestrial perpetrators. Not exactly sure how I'd do this. Maybe I'd get wire mesh and make some tubes with them that I'd cover with coir fiber (used for basket liner) except for the top. I'd fill the tubes with a mix of peat and perlite, suspend them from tree branches or a shade structure, and then make cuts into the coir to plant the strawberries. I wonder if shade cloth would work better or worse than the coir. A long time ago I bought a roll of coir and I'm thinking it wasn't cheap. The tubes might require fairly frequent waterings during summer... so perhaps I'd place shallow plastic dishes (ie bottoms of water bottles) at regular intervals inside the tubes. Or I'd set up a drip system. Maybe if PVC pipe was used instead of mesh and coir the medium wouldn't dry out as fast? In any case, there's more than one way to grow strawberries vertically!...See Morecheleinri
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