Vertical Garden Planting Tips
It’s that time of year for Garden Planting to begin. If you are looking for some easy tips to take your garden to the next level I’ve got you covered. Keep reading below to find out some of my most popular Easy Vertical Garden Planting Tips.
1. Clean Vertical Garden Planting
Growing Vertically has many garden benefits. Not only will it save you space but can also be beneficial to your vegetables. Growing vertically will not only save you time keeping your garden clean, but can also keep your vegetables cleaner as well.
Growing plants on the ground can really makes a mess, especially in our sandy garden soil. I hate bringing a huge basket of dirty veggies in and having to scrub them forever before I can eat them. By trellising your plants you can keep them up off the ground, and keep them out of the dirt and sand.
2. Use Trellises to Grow Vertically
I am sure your first question is how to grow vertically. Well, the answer is super easy because many plants will naturally trellis.
All you have to do is provide them a structure to grow on. My husband and I built a cute DIY Garden Trellis that our garden plants love.
DIY Garden Trellis
I was determined to have a garden arch to train some of our vining plants, and I just happened to have a leftover piece of lattice.
I am all about using what I have, and saving money. So we made this simple arch using things we had around the farm.
3. Vertically Garden Planting to Discourage Pests
Growing vertically can also help keep vegetables up off the ground and away from pests that may try to snack on your veggies. Being up off the ground will make it more of a challenge for any bugs, insects, or tiny critters like rabbits to get directly to plants.
Using store bought trellis to vertically train our raspberry and blackberry bushes has helped keep the fruit off the ground. This discourages the rabbits from eating our plants and fruit, but also makes picking the berries so much easier.
I hope these tips for Vertical Garden Planting will give you some garden ideas. If you give vertical planting a try, make sure to tag me on Instagram, and let me know what other garden veggies you grow vertically. As always, keep following along with The Four Acre Farm blog for more Easy Recipes, Gardening Tips, & Budget Friendly DIY.
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