Designing A Home Fruit Vegetable Garden
You can make do with even a small patch.
Designing a home fruit vegetable garden. You could even grow a grapevine on a 4 foot wide trellis and harvest about 8 16 bunches of grapes or grow espalier fruit trees. This layout gives you a square for each vegetable grown. Fruit trees can be further back.
Squeezing more fruit into your garden is always worthwhile and you ll never regret making space for it if you can feast your eyes as well as your belly. The vertical vegetable garden is a great idea for small space. There is no gardening rule that says hanging baskets have to be flowers.
Purchase decorative planting containers and arrange them around your balcony patio or yard. Then you put a pallet on the backside of the bed to allow vegetables to grow up it for support. Just remember that the containers will get heavy when they are full of wet soil and fruiting plants.
All you need is a spot that gets six or more hours of sunshine each day. You have one raised garden bed. You can use any type of container you like from old buckets to recycled soda bottles even expensive ceramic bowls.
This garden area is fenced in and it even has its own little table and chairs. Tomatoes peppers lettuce green onions and many herbs are capable of surviving in containers. High use routes through the garden such as from the laundry to the washing line we call energy pathways and here too is often a good place for high maintenance or regularly picked vegetable crops.
You may even get a better yield due in part to the heat that is being reflected back off the wall. For added flair or to create a multi level garden grow some baby tomatoes in hanging baskets. With a bit of soil and proper planning it can be a stunning vegetable garden in no time.