does anyone here have experience with _vertical_ methods for growing plants? I've seen a couple of examples at a local flower and garden show (some years ago) and they looked somewhat appealing as a method for getting more plants into a limited space.
@0xf0 yeah, exactly. I've seen walls for sure, and I think I've seen vertical tubes with holes being used as well
@kara I'd love to do something like that so much...!
@kara I usually grow cucumbers in tomato cages. I've heard of growing smaller melons like cantaloupe, cassava &c on trellises, but you'd probably have to support them in nets when they get big.
@KevinCarson1 by "vertical" I mean setups where the gardening bed or medium is itself vertical, e.g.
@kara Ahhh... gotcha
@kara @KevinCarson1 Well, I did some googling and I found this: https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/garden-ideas/how-to/g1274/how-to-plant-a-vertical-garden/?slide=2
@Angle @KevinCarson1 oh thanks! a lot of food for thought here. some of the ideas are strictly ornamental but still, a lot of creativity here, thanks
@kara I saw someone posted a thing about that a few months ago, it looked cool. On another note, have you heard of Permaculture? You might find it interesting as well.
@Angle oh, fascinating! not sure how much such a plan can be scaled down, but it would be nice to design a garden that didn't feel so much like...I dunno, some area ruthlessly cleared out and then policed for any other life showing up aside from the things you want
@kara Check "soda bottle garden" or "vertical garden" in a search engine, iirc the search terms. Might be useful?
@Archbeth yeah, you get a lot of dross that way, but I've come up with a couple of possibilities so far
@kara Good luck! (I have cats who world play sooooo hard with something like that...)
@Archbeth oh this is for outdoors XD so I can get away with something rougher, and our cats are just indoor cats.
@kara Ha! We'd get deer outside... >_<
But there's probably more scope to stick things in the ground or anchor in giant pots, at least!
@Archbeth yeah! one simple idea that I've found one picture of is using an ordinary pallet as the framework, one could I suppose line it with landscaping cloth or with screen material and pack dirt in it, then grow things through the spaces in the slats
@kara oh, you mean things like walls and stuff?