Monday 11 April 2011

Footprint 21: My first vertical garden

I have a small garden.  One of my plans to 'acquire' additional space is to build vertical gardens.  Here is my first one:
On the wall, at the start of the corridor
Rain gutters ready for planting
I purchased three metres of square roof guttering, cut into two 1.5 metre pieces, four gutter ends and four brackets to hold the gutters.  These have been 'hung' on the wall.  They are not very deep, and can therefore only be used for plants with short rooting systems.  I am going to fill them with Mel's mix [see Square Foot Gardening], and then plant baby spinach, violas, strawberries, radishes, marigolds and one or two 'experiments' to see how they do.

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