Vertical Vegetable gardening

Growing a Vertical Vegetable Garden

Vertical Vegetable gardening or vertical gardening is another space saving method to grow your vegetables. If you love vegetables that vine but find theses wanderers take up way too much space in the garden, you will be pleased to find this method lets you grow those vegetables without using all the space.

While the cascade of color is dramatic, beware of where it sits. Just like in real estate sales, it is location, location, location. If you have shorter plants next to the wall of color, make sure that the trellis doesnot cast a shadow on those poor little plants. Plan your garden so your vertical walls donot block any of the life giving sun.

plants for vertical garden

If you want an extremely beautiful wall of color, try some vegetables that are a bit more unusual. One example is the purple pole bean. This flash of purple against the vivid prolific green foliage makes an awesome picture and some delicious and unusual meals. These delectable beans taste like the old fashioned kind that Grandpa grew in his little truck patch. You can enhance the colors by mixing morning glories with the beans so there is always a cascade of color on your trellis. These prolific producers will keep you in beans all winter long.

Since plants that climb donot have as much ground cover as those that hover on the ground, donot forget to mulch so your plants donot dry out. You should have several inches of mulch at the base of each plant to keep the ground moist and prevent the sun from drying the soil.

When planting vertical vegetable gardening you keep the plants growing the way you want. These fickle little characters donot take verbal orders very well so you will need to help them along by training them properly. Use twine, not wire to keep the plants anchored to the trellis. Most vertical gardeners find that soft thick twine works best and it doesn�t cut the stem. Some folks like to use yarn. The plant takes hold long before the weather destroys the yarn. Keep it soft, no matter what you do and donot tie too tightly.

Try some indeterminate heirloom tomatoes for a true taste treat. When you buy tomato plants or use seed for your tomatoes, look for the indeterminate varieties. This simply means that they arenot the bush variety.

Tomatoes donot vine as well as pole beans or cucumbers so you might need a cage to get the best effect. Once the foliage starts appearing, you will never see the cage after that. Check for stems with blossoms and bring them toward the outside of the cage for the best color. Try some varieties that donot hurt your tummy if you eat too many like the Amana orange tomato, Dr. Wyches yellow (started by the owner of Cole Brothers Circus), Tangella Tomato or Golden Sunray. You will find the taste is far more dynamic than any tomato that you will find at the store.

The Amana Orange tomato plant produces tomatoes that weigh one pound and the Dr. Wyches Yellow has the same size fruit but the tomatoes taste different from any you have had You will love the splashy display of the yellow and orange tomatoes against the mountain of foliage.

For Vertical Vegetable Gardening you can plant an edible flower that both vines and comes as a bush. Look for nasturtiums to plant in your vertical garden. These plants make any salad a night in a fancy restaurant. Nasturtium leaves are edible and add a spicy pepper taste to a salad. The flowers are edible too and while they donot add much flavor, you love the color and elegance they add to any salad. The variety of color splashes your Vertical Vegetable gardening with drama.

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