Can a Vertical Garden Cut Your Grocery Bill?
With food prices climbing, more Aussies are turning to home-grown produce to save money. A Mr Stacky vertical garden lets you grow herbs, greens, and veggies in bulk, reducing trips to the supermarket and cutting costs long-term. This brief explores how much you can really save with a Mr Stacky system, and which crops give the best return on investment.
My 5 tier garden grows multiple things throughout the year. In FNQ year round lettuce and strawberries are impossible so it’s a constant process of letting something grow, harvest it, grow the next seasonal thing. When it’s not growing food crops it’s growing medicinal herbs and flowers for the bees.
I have mine irrigated with slow drip coils to ensure it remains hydrated in the hot dry environment. In the rainy season it’s not needed.
At the moment I am growing strawberries in mine and have harvested the lettuces from other tiers. New plants are about to go in. Everlasting daisies on the top tier, micro tomatoes further down.
If you don’t have adequate sunlight, grow things that prefer the shade further down the stack. Anything that wants a lot of sun sun, up top.
-Tash, White Rock, QLD
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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.
Find out how he can help you achieve your food production goals. Contact Brian