3 Easy Ways to Save Space Using Vertical Gardening

Encourage plants to GROW UP using vertical gardening. If you are working with a small space to grow plants, you can follow these three DIY tips to save space and keep your garden sustainable. Try towers for raspberries, pyramid planters for strawberries, and trellises for bean plants.

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3 Easy Ways to Save Space Using Vertical Gardening

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  • john papple

    I've taken up gardening for the first time this year. I started 7 tomato plants in 7 different pots and I was growing them all vertically on a 5 ft tall stake. After a few of them started falling over (more than a few times) I decided to circle them around a big shepherd's hook pot hanger thing and I just tie them to that in a big bush. It's about 6 ft tall at the moment. I'm going to do a similar setup next year but you can bet that I will not be using pots. If I do, I'll make sure they are bigger than the ones I have now. I underestimated the root growth, but I have had loads of small-medium sized tomatoes.

  • Cate's Garden

    I really enjoyed this. Have been very into vertical gardening (initially as an experiment for clients asking how to grow in small spaces) for the past year or so.

  • Chef Excellence Productions

    Your herb garden fell over and you used French cleats??? That must have been a pretty big storm, Because I would think they would ensure sturdiness since they're wedged in there. Anyway, great video, and I'm glad you see your garden do so well! :)

  • Johnny West

    I live in the south where it gets hot. Wire trellises get pretty hot when in direct sunlight. What I use for my tomatoes and cucumbers is netting. Fishing net or soccer goal netting works great and doesn't' get hot at all. Fishing net can be purchased in varying sizes for different crops as well.

  • Tomas Helleberg

    Nice!

    We used butternut squashes to give us the shade we needed on out south-west fasing glased balcony, the vines grew up the the ceiling early by climbing two lines tied together every 30cm or so. The big leaves gave us hte shade we wanted.. And we got butternut squashes!

  • Tracy Smith

    Have you ever considered aquaponics? Definitely container gardens and can make excellent use of vertical space! Plus depending on your climate and back yard set up, you can grow all year long! Even colder climates with use of a green house or solar shed.

  • Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith

    I would add a caveat with regards to encouraging plants to grow as tall as possible. I'm sure this is fine in warm climates but here in Scotland we have to be careful not to let plants grow too tall as they would otherwise spread themselves too thin by growing too many fruit or veg since we have a colder climate. Tomatoes for instance I wouldn't grow more than 2 or 3 levels or they're likely to take too long to grow any decent fruit by spending too much energy growing up and growing new shoots.

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