Growing your own quality fresh produce from your backyard is totally doable with the right technology! You can achieve incredible yields from any small backyard or balcony with limited gardening experience or maintenance. This blog will break down a few of the best options available today for abundant yields in small spaces.There’s something about frolicking barefoot through your garden. It’s good for the soul. However, spending countless hours planting, watering and caring for your garden, only to to harvest gangling bug invested produce really sucks big time. Most people want to grow fresh organic produce from home, but simply don’t have the time or expertise. What if there was a simple way to have fresh organic produce from home at less than half the cost you’d find in the grocer’s aisle? Vertical gardening may just hold the answer you seek. The key is automation. Automate the watering process ensuring just the right amount of water and nutrient at every stage of growth, and you have a winning formula for repeatable success. This article touches on some creative vertical gardening ideas well worth the attention of budding and experienced urban farmers.
Hydroponic Tower Gardening
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Wall Gardening Planters
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Herbs are one of the best crops you can grow in a vertical garden. In fact, many herbs grow better when planted vertically. They seem to appreciate not being stuck in the ground, and getting up in the air a bit, will help to improve air circulation around the herbs, Improved air circulation will ensure both a healthier and faster-growing crop. But, what herbs should you grow in your vertical garden?
3 Starter Herbs for Your Vertical Garden
First of all, ask yourself which herbs you enjoy eating. There is no point in growing herbs which you are not going to use. If you don’t cook or eat a certain herb raw you would simply be wasting space. When you have been into this easy way of gardening for a while, you will have realised there are certain vertical garden ideas and plants which work better than others. That is where you should start when it comes to growing herbs.
Rosemary In the Vertical Wall Garden
One of the herbs which seem to thrive in any vertical wall garden is the herb rosemary. Normally we think of rosemary as a bushy herb, but in fact, creeping varieties of rosemary are available. They are just as colorful and tasty as the bush variety.
The great thing about growing rosemary is that you can use most of the plant. The lovely blue flowers can be added to salads and taste great together with most salad varieties such as Little Gem. It is easy to think of uses for the fragrant leaves. Rosemary tastes fantastic together when cooked with lamb, but don’t stop there. This easy to use herb can be used when preparing chicken and potato dishes. Cooking with fresh rosemary will soon have you wondering why you ever used the dried herb.
Rosemary will also help you to attract pollinators such as bees to your vertical garden which are welcome wildlife addition to any type of garden.
Parsley Loves to Be Harvested
Parsley seeds can take some time to germinate, but if you have the patience to wait for them to do so, you will end up with a strong and healthy plant. There are different varieties of parsley you can grow, and you may want to experiment with a couple of them. Flat leaf and curly leaf parsley have distinct tastes, and growing both will help you to make the most out of vertical gardening ideas. For instance, did you know flat leaf parsley makes an excellent salad vegetable? Both varieties can be used as a medicinal herb and parsley is known to cleanse the blood and balance blood sugar.
The best thing about parsley is that it loves to be harvested. The more often you harvest parsley, the healthier the plant will stay.
Don’t Ignore Chives
Chives is one of those herbs which has taken a bit of “backseat” in recent years. It is such as shame as it is one of the most user-friendly herbs. Once you have grown chives, you are bound to become addicted to the flavor of this herb and how easy it is to use in a variety of ways. The lovely flowers can even be put in a vase and used as decoration.
Chives do not need to be cooked to bring out the flavor. Just toss a handful on your potatoes and get ready for a new taste sensation. Chives can also be added to olive oil to make a wonderful infused oil to drizzle on your salads. The herb is garlic’s best friend and a wonderful companion plant to the herb basil which is another herb you should consider for your vertical wall garden.
When it comes to herbs which can be used in a vertical garden, you are unlikely to run out of ideas. Remember herbs loved to be harvested and fussed over and will keep your vertical growing space looking green and fresh throughout the year.
There are some exotic herbs which you can use to make sure you add new and exciting vertical gardening ideas all of the time. Try growing lemongrass and Epazote which is used in Caribbean cooking, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy both herbs are to grow.
Don’t forget that herbs have medicinal uses. Lemongrass can help to treat a cold or respiratory illness, and rosemary can clear headaches and migraines. If you only let it, your herbal vertical garden can mean so much more than just a food source. With the right kind of herbs, you will have your own pharmacy in your garden. What can be better than that?
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Mr Stacky is the leader in Tower Garden Systems in Australia, specializing in commercial hydroponic farming, urban farming & residential vertical gardening.
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