Vertical garden with their own hands
Vertical garden
Lack of space is a problem familiar to many summer residents. I would like to plant both this and that, to break up a kindergarten, a flower garden and a berry plant, to take a place under the arbor, to grab a scrap for the barbecue ...
In the end, one starts to obscure the other, the third one simply will not be born near the fourth, and we grab our heads. All these problems can be avoided if you start to develop upwards by building a vertical garden!
The advantages of a vertical garden are obvious: it's saving space, it's easier to take care of and harvest (you do not have to bend down), the plants are ventilated, which can rid them of fungal diseases, and finally the pure fruits, because they do not touch the ground.
There are, of course, drawbacks: it is a deficit of moisture (additional watering is needed, because the soil dries out much faster), and a shortage of soil (after all, the vertical garden provides modest sized containers), therefore, plants need extra food. As you can see, the cons are quite serious, but still fixable.
For example, to reduce the deficit of moisture can be, adding to the soil familiar to flower growers hydrogel, or to conduct a system of drip irrigation. The problem of a limited amount of soil can be solved if you sow in a container a plant with a weak root system, for example, greens, although even in this case, the frequency of supplementary feeding should be at least doubled.
FACT: for growing in a vertical garden, cucumbers, tomatoes, all legumes are suitable ...
Reference by topic: Vertical landscaping in the country and a vertical garden with their own hands
Where to place the vertical garden
When choosing a location, you need to be guided not only by whether you need this wall, whether the stand will not ruin the stand with pots, but also on lighting: most vegetable plants need at least 6-7 hours of sunlight per day.
Next is moisture. In order not to carry heavy buckets or to water the seedlings with ice water from a hose, you must place a vertical garden near the water source.
Do not like plants and drafts, cold winds (with the exception of stable spinach), so the place should be warmer, oriented to the south.
See also: Vertical beds with your hands at the cottage
What to make a vertical garden
The choice of containers for a vertical garden is huge: baskets, containers, flower pots, dense film, plastic bottles, jars and so forth are suitable.
They can be bought, or made independently, for example, from the same plastic bottles. It is necessary only before use to tightly close the neck stopper, and in the bottle to cut an oval hole of length 5-6 cm.
The main thing is to securely fix the containers on the support. Tanks can be nailed or screwed in random order to the fence, wall, sawn wood, or other structure (see photo). Then fill them with nutritious soil, moisten - and you can plant seedlings or sow seeds.
Some manage to grow greens in water pipes: cut them along, fasten to a fence, wall or other support, fill with soil - and the bed is ready. Or so: from a spunbond sew pockets 25 x 15 cm, fix them on a large canvas-base, hang on a fence or door and fill with soil.
TIP: If several types of plants are grown on a vertical bed, then they are placed focusing on height: small ones from above, large ones - lower.
© Irina Guryeva, ml. scientific al. All-Russian Research Institute of Gardening named after Michurina
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How to grow a lot of plants in a small area? Very simple - by forming them in a vertical culture. It is this method that makes it possible to use the entire volume of the greenhouse and the greenhouse as efficiently as possible. Today, it is considered an impermissible luxury to grow in such a shelter 2,5 meters high, for example, determinant tomatoes, reaching only 50 * 60 cm.
Garter to the wire or trellis, in addition to sealing landings, allows them to properly form, create the optimal conditions for ventilation and illumination of plants. As a result, they suffer less or disease, and the crop rises. As a garter I use a linen twine: it though and less reliable, but natural. If at the end of the season some pieces remain, until the spring they will rot. The most powerful crops I tie with polypropylene twine. I fasten the garter on the plants with a free loop that supports well, but does not overtax the plant as it grows.