Fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits don’t need a lot of room to develop. You don’t even need a garden bed. If you have a big container, soil, water, and sunshine, you can produce some delectable things.
Plant breeders understand that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small area, so they create strains that can grow in limited spaces or even may endure in pots throughout the year.
How Much Space Do You Need For A Vegetable Garden
A summer vegetable garden should be planned for about 100 square feet per person, according to a general rule. Advanced: If you’re more ambitious and wish to have year-round food supplies, plan on around 200 square feet per person. At least half of the harvest should be frozen or canned for winter usage.
How Do You Make A Garden With No Space
Tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, squash, and beans are all excellent candidates for vertical gardening. Cucumbers and melons can take up a lot of room in the garden.
Vertical gardening can provide greater yields in vegetable production than standard horticulture, even if you have plenty of room. A well-designed trellis or wall may also be beautiful.
Here’s how to get started.
Vertical Garden Ideas To Grow Your Vegetables
DIY Lettuce Hanging Basket
Our first vegetable garden project may well be one of the simplest. Grow a cut and come again DIY lettuce ball in a hanging basket with some sphagnum moss! This is not only an efficient method to produce greens, but it’s also quite attractive. You may also cultivate certain herbs and other tiny edibles such as this. Find this easy tutorial at ‘Home Depot‘.
PVC Pipe Vertical Garden
The Kim Six Fix recommended constructing a vertical herb garden using PVC pipe and a 1×4. This is ideal for growing herbs, greens, and small vegetables like radishes or globe carrots, and it can be hung from any wall. To make them look more decorative in the garden, she used beautiful pastel colors on them.
Vertical Pallet Garden
Over at ‘Garden Therapy,’ you’ll learn some amazing pallet vertical vegetable garden ideas. She has some fantastic advice on where to get safe pallets for food production and how to utilize them for more than just vegetables.
Wooden Crate Planter
The Paper Mama created a lovely rainbow garden that fits against a wall and takes up hardly any space at all, utilizing wood crates! The vertical vegetable garden has enough depth for deeper roots, allowing you to cultivate container-grown crops such as beans and tomatoes. Beans, tomatoes, and even patio squash are all possible candidates.
Cedar Vertical Gardens
From ‘Houseful of Handmade,’ learn how to construct this cedar vertical vegetable garden, which includes a drip watering system. They’re growing herbs, but it would also work for lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots, cherry tomatoes… the list goes on my friends.
This cedar wall planter, on the other hand, is a smaller version of the idea. This thorough tutorial from ‘Rogue Engineer’ is the ideal method to have a beautiful garden on a small space. Free plans and step-by-step instructions are provided.
DIY Garden Towers
‘Creating My Happiness’ produced this strawberry tower. We adore how easy and inexpensive this project is, as well as the fact that it utilizes so little garden space. Cheap 2×6 timber was used, but fence boards may also be utilized. This isn’t just for strawberries!
A small touch of whimsy is provided by a terra cotta pot (you probably already have one!) and a piece of rebar from the home improvement shop. You may stack your veggies with these vertical vegetable planters! This little vignette also adds a bit of humor! Tutorial from ‘Budget 101‘.
Rain Gutter Planters
Rain gutter garden planters from Hunker allow you to adjoin a little growing area to any wall that can hold it. Rain gutter gardens may also be hung from roof eavs with chain. This one appears to be sleek and modern, and you’d never guess what it’s made of.
To increase your yield, stack your rain gutters into a frame. This planter may be placed right outside the kitchen door for easy access to anything you need for your culinary projects. This one’s also portable! Visit ‘Garden Gate’ if you want to know how-tos.
If you have a tiny yard but want to be able to expand it, check out these methods for growing vertical.
DIY Cucumber Trellis
A trellis is one of the most effective ways to grow up. This ‘Finding Lovely’ DIY garden trellis is gorgeous! It may also be used to extend the season for crops by growing vine vegetables in between regular crops. Peas, beans, cucumbers… These might even serve as tomato cages if desired.
Make a trellis with an old pallet to grow veggies vertically using the vertical vegetable garden design by ‘Lovely Greens.’ This may also be really beneficial for crops like melon and squash that need to be transplanted from the ground to prevent rot. If you put shade-loving greens beneath this trellis, it could more than double your growing space.
Raised Bed Idea
Make a three-tiered raised bed using these instructions from ‘Garden Therapy’ and this planter, which she used to turn an inconvenient, little space into a productive garden. Anyone have a patio or side yard?
Raised beds are an excellent way to produce nutritious veggies in a home garden. Especially if you utilize the square foot gardening technique. But growing up can provide even more space! To make use of their raised beds, ‘Frugal Family Home’ constructed a wire cattle panel trellis that saved space. They’re long-lasting and cheap to produce. Even when in use, they fold compactly and take up as little room as possible.
Finally, ‘Delia Creates’ took the same concept and applied it to the cattle panels… up in the air! Creating a trellis between the beds allows crops to grow higher up above the walking path, allowing for double the growing area.
No matter where you want to grow vegetables on your balcony or in your backyard, you may find inspiration with these suggestions.