Vertical Vegetable Gardening: DIY

Vertical gardening offers great benefits for gardeners who want to plant a vertical vegetable garden. Besides requiring less water and fertilizers, vertical gardens require less maintenance. In addition, you will not have to deal with weeds, pests and diseases because plants grown vertically have much better air circulation around the foliage. Plus, your plants will avoid contact with the soil and soil related diseases. Your fruit with thank you and be less prone to blemishes.

One of the easiest ways to get started with a vertical vegetable garden is to purchase a vertical gardening kit. These kits allow plants to be grown on all most any vertical surface, including walls. Many vertical gardening kits have built in watering and irrigation systems so all you have to do is add water to a watering tank and the system automatically waters your vegetables. This will obviously save you much time and energy, because you do not have to worry about spills and inadequate water flow.

Using a vertical gardening kit, you can grow anything from peas, pole beans, cucumbers, small melons, tomatoes, summer and winter squashes. You could even grow vegetables that you would not ordinarily associate with a vertical garden, including carrots, eggplants, lettuce, peppers, potatoes, radishes and spinach.  All that is required is a container garden and a little patience.

So get started with your vertical vegetable garden today. It is something you will not regret!