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Ideas for a Vertical Vegetable Garden
Ideas for a Vertical Vegetable Garden. When many people think of growing a vegetable garden, they picture digging up the backyard and installing blocks of vegetable plots. This doesn't have to be the case if you plant a vertical vegetable garden. Think three-dimensionally when planning your garden and you can grow vegetables for your family while...
When many people think of growing a vegetable garden, they picture digging up the backyard and installing blocks of vegetable plots. This doesn't have to be the case if you plant a vertical vegetable garden. Think three-dimensionally when planning your garden and you can grow vegetables for your family while keeping your yard space for leisure and play time.
Surround Your Yard
If you have a chain link fence that surrounds your yard, take advantage of this natural trellis structure to create a yard-sized vertical garden. Dig an 8-inch wide bed at the base of your fence for the length of your yard. Plant tomatoes, pole beans, cucumbers, squash and melons all along the fence.
Against the House
Attach netting to the back of your house by connecting it to gutter hardware or nailing it to wooden eaves. Plant your vegetable garden along the base of your house and allow your food to blanket the back wall of your home.
Screened-In Porch
Create a cool oasis in your back yard by running netting from the roof of your porch to the ground. Plant vegetables along the bottom of the netting. The plants will twine up the net, creating a green and leafy wall and giving you privacy as well as tasty food.
Whirligig Garden
If you're lucky enough to have an old-fashioned whirligig clothes dryer in your yard, or the posts from a clothesline set, use these frames as the basis for a hanging vegetable garden. Plant upside-down planters with tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peppers and other vining foods and hang the planters from the clothes dryer. You'll have a plentiful garden without taking up a foot of yard space.
