Create a vertical garden with vegetables

Nice vertical garden ideas for growing vegetables

You can buy a vertical garden from specialist retailers from around € 150 or you can simply build it yourself. Here are a few ideas for making vertical gardens yourself:

• Vertical PVC pipe with openings (do-it-yourself instructions here)
• Hang PVC pipes or plastic bottles with cut-out openings horizontally
• Lay out pallets with pond liner and plant them (instructions for self-construction here)
• Stack the fruit boxes on top of one another, cover them with pond liner and plant them
• Create a raised bed

What vegetables can be grown in the vertical garden?

In the vegetable garden, vegetables have significantly more space for their roots and other parts of the plant. Therefore, vertical gardens are more suitable for shallow-rooted and small-sized vegetables, such as. B .:

• all types of lettuce
• all herbs
• Garden cress
• Nasturtiums
• radish

No vegetables, but still tasty: Strawberries grow well in the wall garden.

Rather unsuitable are:

• tomatoes
• zucchini
• Cucumber
• potatoes
• Cabbage
• all other heavy consumers

Which vegetables you can grow in the wall garden also depend on how much sun your vertical garden gets. In general, all vegetables thrive better when they are in the sun.

Vegetables and herbs for the vertical garden that can get by with less sun:

• dill
• mint
• chives
• radish
• parsley
• sorrel

How to plant your vegetables in the vertical garden

It is best to lay out your vertical vegetable garden at the end of May after the ice saints. Take nutrient-rich soil or mix more normal Potting soil some compost underneath. Make sure that your planters have adequate drainage. This is especially important outdoors if it rains a lot.
It is best to move the plants on the windowsill a month in advance so that you can harvest faster. Make sure there is sufficient spacing between the plants.

How to maintain your vertical vegetable garden

Vegetables planted vertically require exactly the same care as vegetables planted horizontally. Only the watering can be a bit more complex, as the upper rows in particular tend to dry out quickly. To make watering easier, you can loop a hose around the different levels of your wall garden and poke numerous holes in it. Connect the hose, turn on the tap, done!