Wall Gardens Expand Your Growing Space
Vertical gardening is not only the wave of the future, it’s here, now. We’re all for anything that helps gardeners grow more if they want to. Today there are many different vertical gardens, which allow gardeners to grow more food in less space, often involving less work as well, once the initial infrastructure is in place.
Hey, we’re all for that, and we think this vertical garden house with wall gardens is super cool!
An Edible Garden House
The options for this are numerous. We can easily imagine this as a roadside vegetable stand. It would get more traffic than any other stand because people would be wanting to stop to see it.
Vertical Gardening Uses
- Market Garden or Roadside vegetable stand – instead of a table, how about a wall garden?
- When you have a garden shed but no yard space for gardening
- You can grow vertically using any available wall with enough light
Vertical Gardening Pros
- Grow more in less space
- Easier to reach
- Market gardeners can sell directly from your garden house
- Many simple vertical gardening solutions exist today
Vertical Gardening Cons
- Can take more time and money to build out the infrastructure
- You need to protect your walls from moisture that could result in damaging and mold
- Not all vertical gardening systems are good ones; carefully read customer reviews
If garden house is way more than you could—or would want to—create, there are so many other options. If you have a fence or deck railing, you could start with simply adding decorative pots to a fence or deck railing.
Enjoy this super cool concept, shared from Landezine.com.[1]https://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/12/eathouse-by-marijke-bruinsma-marjan-van-capelle/
EatHouse attracts visitors with delicious vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. All the materials used in EatHouse can be re-used for a new season.
Though this EatHouse is only temporary, lasting just a summer season, it opens the mind to innovations and possibilities to explore. Including for market gardeners.
EatHouse consists of a modular system of plain plastic crates. These crates are used in the agricultural industry to harvest, transport and exhibit fruit and vegetables in combination with a scaffold system.
With this system vertical green becomes accessible for everyone; you can make your own vegetable garden on the wall of your balcony or on the roof of your garden shed![2]https://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/12/eathouse-by-marijke-bruinsma-marjan-van-capelle/
If this concept seems intimidating, then start small and simple. The easiest way to start is to just add plants to one section of an available wall and expand from there.
IDEA for Market Gardeners
If you’re a market gardener, imagine a mobile garden house that you can drive to market. You would attract more customers to the novelty of your creation and sell more of your produce.
Edible House of the Future
What about living in a house where you’re also growing food? An energy efficient, food sufficient dwelling undoubtedly lives in the future of possibilities.
Ideas for Edible and Mobile Gardening
A garden on wheels can take the idea of “you pick” to urban areas. Consider these ideas and see what may develop from your own imagination.
- Food Truck Produce Stand on Wheels – Build out a food truck with live plants accessible from exterior and interior.
- exterior sides can have a protective door covering for plant protection during travel
- interior sides can be accessible via steps from within, leaving 4 walls for vertical plantings
- Garden Shed on trailer bed with wheels – convert walls into vertical grow stations
- imagine the feeling of standing inside the shed full of plants
- hand pick produce from walls
Truck Farm Film
Some have experimented with the idea. Fun punchline on this one: “You can teach an old Dodge new tricks.” 😎
You may also enjoy this article on what’s possible with vertical gardening.
Let’s keep on growing!
I’m LeAura Alderson, a garden, herb and plant enthusiast with a passion for discovering the many edible and medicinal benefits of the plants all around us, including the weeds! I’m a writer, editor and media publisher for our family of websites.
While I was certified in fitness and life coaching, I am NOT a health practitioner. However, I’m a lifelong health enthusiast, with a keen interest in healthy, organic foods and making home remedies and the content we share is from our own experience and usage as well as that extracted from scientific research so that you can explore further on your own.
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As a family we’re steadily expanding our gardening, experimentation and knowledge around all things gardening, edible landscaping, fresh organic foods and self sustainability with farming in our future. I also own and manage iCreateDaily.com, a site all about transformation through creation, and the power of positivity, optimism and mindset.
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