Sunday 7 July 2013

Vertical planting update

Just to show how our vertical box is coming on. I had some mishaps due to hail and what not, but it finally is taking. Mostly calendula in the vertical part. Tomato, cucumber, pepper and basil with beans in the top parts. The cucumbers will be trellised along the plastic.

6 comments:

  1. I love the concept of vertical gardening, your design looks great too.
    Will the wood rot though?
    I think I will try something similar on our eastern wall; where we get the most heat into the house on hot summer mornings, then the vertical bed can insulate the wall as well as growing something. I will have to plant heat loving plants and keep the water up to them though. I wonder if there is a PVC alternative to the wood for the actual bed?

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  2. I think these vertical beds are a great idea. I think I will use them on my eastern wall where the really hot Summer sun heats up the house. I can bolt them to the wall up to the height where the eaves shadow the wall, coincidentally that's about the height I can reach to plant and water. I would have to use heat loving plants like capsicum, eggplant and chillis in the top and New Zealand spinach, rocket and silverbeet under them so the top plants will give the bottom ones a bit of shade and shelter.
    Maybe strawberries in the sides (although the birds will eat most of them). Wow, you have really inspired me!

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  3. Great to hear that you got inspired. As for the wood, yes I think it will rot eventually. But it will last a couple of years and the I throw it on the compost and make a new one.
    I have seen people grow stuff in those plastic hanging shoe racks. They might last a little longer.

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  4. Great to hear that you got inspired. As for the wood, yes I think it will rot eventually. But it will last a couple of years and the I throw it on the compost and make a new one.
    I have seen people grow stuff in those plastic hanging shoe racks. They might last a little longer.

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  5. The shoe racks might work, but i do have access to a lot of old pallets that would do the job (providing they haven't been chemically treated. I will have to look around the 'useful pile'.

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  6. Most of the pallets aren't treated. This is because they are now considered consumables, i.e. items to be discarded after use. Some hardwood pallets (the orange or blue painted ones) could have been treated as they are reusable.
    Good luck with your endeavour and maybe post a picture when your done. I would really love to see different versions of these green walls.

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