If you’re looking for an easy way to expand your vegetable growing options, just Garden Up!
If you find you ’re little on space for vegetable horticulture this year , just look up . That ’s the advice from Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet in their new volume , Garden Up ! Smart Vertical Gardening for pocket-sized and Large Spaces(Cool Springs Press , February 2011 , $ 19.95 ) .
The book is filled with agency to vertically enhance the landscape with ornamental , but there ’s also a chapter devoted to vertical horticulture with edibles . The two landscape painting interior designer from northern California put their heads together and came up with more than a dozen creative solutions for using vertical spaces to get small fruit , herb , and vegetables in all sizes of gardens .
There are many edibles well - suit for vertical growing like strawberry , tomatoes , and any veg with a trailing habit , just to name a few . gnome and columnar yield Tree , like ‘ Compact Stella ’ cherry tree and ‘ PixZee ’ peach , serve dual duty by ply upright sake with a bounty of fruit .
The writer include details about some familiar planting selection , like container and trellises , but they also inclose nurseryman to hanging air pocket systems , vertical frames , toilet gardens , and free - standing sub - irrigated planters .
Beautiful color pic instance way to take advantage of every perpendicular space . I specially liked the idea for growing edible standards , like grapes . Standards are any industrial plant grafted onto an erect stem , like a lollipop .
Espaliers are another interesting grow option and Morrison and Sweet dispel the myth that these are meant only for advanced gardens . develop a Pyrus communis or apple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to farm flat against a paries can process in any landscape .
Here are other way to get started growing up :
• progress a hemangioma simplex tugboat with PVC pipe.• expend a hanging charge card bucket for maturate upside - down tomatoes.• Put a vintage headboard or old ladder to use as a trellis.• Swap out ornamental for edibles to add layers to a garden bed .
Once you start seem up , the sky ’s the limit on veggie grow !
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