Gardens In The Sky!

Are you ready to be creative to produce unusual and beautiful effects in your garden? Then get into vertical gardening, to guide the plants into your own unique art form and to enjoy the sheer novelty of harvesting. Make the best use of the vertical space you have to create a functional and attractive garden.

The essential materials for vertical gardening are trellises, nets, strings, cages, or poles to support growing plants. The plants for vertical gardening can be vining and sprawling plants, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, and pole beans. Plant these veins in suitable soil where their roots can deeply dig into.

A vertical garden can thrive on a rooftop or in a patio planter box. Plants grown vertically occupy much less space on the ground, and though the yield per plant may be low, the yield per square foot of garden space is high. As your plants start to grow, be careful that entwine themselves onto the support, while others may need to be tied.

The Harvest High-rise structure is a 45" X 45" X 84" high frame designed to fit within the bounds of a 48"-wide raised bed or planter box. This frame can be laced with nets and strings in a zigzag manner on which garden vines can climb. This zigzag netting will ensure maximum lights to the plants for healthy growth and harvest.

Because vertically growing plants are more exposed than non-staked plants, they dry out quickly and may need to be watered frequently. This fast drying is an advantage to those plants susceptible to fungus diseases.

Other plants in your garden should be planted according to the shading of your vertical garden. Beware of planting sun-loving crops near the vertical garden. But plant shade-tolerant crops near the trellises do take advantage of the vertical garden"s shade.

By harvest time there may be 30-50 lbs. of melons, squash, beans, cucumbers or pumpkins suspended on the cords of each of the sides of your harvest high-rise. Add a hardwood core to each of the top horizontal tubes for the extra strength and rigidity needed to prevent the tubes from sagging during the weeks just prior to harvest time.

This season, enjoy the bliss of vertical gardening for a change!