Vertical Vegetables & Fruit

Vertical Vegetables & Fruit
Author: Rhonda Massingham Hart
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603429980

At last, an innovative solution for urbanites, apartment dwellers, and anyone who wants to grow food in small spaces — grow up! Vertical Vegetables & Fruit shows how easy and fun small-footprint food gardening can be. Low maintenance and big harvests are just two of the benefits of using teepees, trellises, cages, hanging baskets, wall pockets, stacking pots, and multilevel raised beds to grow vegetables and fruit. Whether your soon-to-be garden is an alley, a balcony, a rooftop, or just a windowsill, master gardener Rhonda Massingham Hart provides expert advice for constructing the site, preparing the soil, and planting and caring for vegetables and fruits to produce a hearty harvest. From beans on a tepee to tomatoes on a wire archway, melons on a slanted fence to cucumbers on a trellis, kiwis on a clothesline to strawberries in a pot, there are simple growing guidelines here to fit every gardener's favorite tastes and site. For experienced gardeners looking to try new techniques as well as first-time growers with tiny growing spaces, Vertical Vegetables & Fruit is the space-saving, harvest-enhancing guide to producing a bounty of fresh food in any location.

The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening

The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening
Author: Mark Ridsdill Smith
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1645021505

From the creator of the wildly popular website and Facebook group “Vertical Veg” comes the complete guide to growing delicious fruit, vegetables, herbs, and salad in containers, pots, and more—in any space, from window boxes to garden yards. If you long to grow your own tomatoes, zucchini, or strawberries, but thought you didn’t have enough space, Mark Ridsdill Smith, aka the “Vertical Veg Man,” will show you how to make the most of walls, balconies, patios, arches, and windowsills. Ridsdill Smith has spent over ten years teaching people to grow bountiful, edible crops in all kinds of containers in small spaces. Inside The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening, you’ll find: • Mark’s “Eight Steps to Success” • How to make the most of your space • How to draw up a planning calendar so you can grow throughout the year • Planting projects for beginners • Compost recipes and wormery guide for the more experienced gardener • Troubleshoots for specific challenges of growing in small spaces • How growing food at home can contribute to wellbeing, sustainability, and the local community With quick, proven results from his own tests, failures, and successes, Mark will show you how gardening in containers is not just a hobby, but a way of creating a significant amount of delicious, low-cost, high nutrition food. Don’t be confined by the space you have—grow all the food you want with Mark’s Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening.

Vertical Gardening

Vertical Gardening
Author: Derek Fell
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1605290831

Shares methods of growing vegetables, flowers, and fruits vertically with tips on choosing a site, composting, and controlling weeds, pests, and disease.

Vertical Vegetable Gardening

Vertical Vegetable Gardening
Author: Chris McLaughlin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1615643230

Grow up, not out! Are you a gardener (or aspiring gardener) who is short on space? Vertical methods and structures for growing plants are an ideal way to maximize your real estate, and they're eye-catching, too. Vertical solutions deliver more yield in fewer square feet, especially perfect for the urban gardener. They're less work, too, so you can forget all-day weeding and watering. Some vegetables, such as tomatoes and pole beans, have been grown vertically for a very long time, but those who need to maximize space can grow almost any type of plant vertically—from melons and squash to carrots, peppers, and pears. Vertical growing isn't just practical, it's beautiful, too! Trellises, terra cotta towers, and hanging planters (to name a few!) transform an outdoor space into a magical garden. Vertical Vegetable Gardening is your thorough guide for growing all types of leafy, root, and other vegetables vertically. Included in the book are: • Creative ideas for structures and containers that will save you space, including DIY projects and repurposing suggestions • Profiles on dozens of plant varieties, including planting, tending, and harvesting instructions • How to make your own garden bed • Soil, seed, and gardening basics • Pest control guidance

Vertical Vegetables & Fruit

Vertical Vegetables & Fruit
Author: Rhonda Massingham Hart
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603427740

For gardeners working in confined spaces, Rhonda Massingham Hart presents an ingenious solution for maximizing productivity: grow up! With tepees, trellises, hanging baskets, cages, wall pockets, and multilevel raised beds, you can reap bountiful harvests in even the tiniest growing areas. From kiwis on a clothesline to tomatoes dangling outside a window, Vertical Vegetables & Fruit shows you how to construct and maintain a thriving and abundant garden in whatever small space you have available.

Vertical Gardening

Vertical Gardening
Author: Brian Grant
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Readers (Primary)
ISBN: 9781495996573

Vertical gardening has become popular for those living in urban or limited space areas, where growing up is the best solution.Also known as green walls or living walls, vertical gardens can be placed in or outside of the home, with as little as 4-square-foot of space, you can efficiently grow vegetables, herbs, fruits or flowers.In "Vertical Gardening: What You Need to Know to Grow Organic Vegetables and Fruits for Your Family" we share tips and strategies to produce enough non-gmo food that you will skip these items from the grocery store, saving you hundreds in food expense that you can now grow on your own.Learn what plants grow best in a vertical garden, what plants you can pair together to maximize space, how to choose seeds and setting up your garden in your chosen spot.Start growing your own organic vegetables, herbs and fruits today and begin eating healthier, without chemicals or pesticides.An excellent way for a family to bond while growing their own food. Get this guide to accelerate your vertical gardening project today.

Vertical Gardening

Vertical Gardening
Author: Louis Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2020-12-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781801447591

Have you always wanted to grow some of your own food at home? Do you like the idea of eating fresh, organically grown vegetables and herbs? If you're a person likes gardening who wants to know the secrets of Vertical Gardening, Urban Gardening, and Grow Vegetables, then you're about to discover how to be able to start your own vertical garden right now! In fact, if you want to learn different methods of vertical gardening, then this new Book - "Vertical Gardening: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Vegetables, Flowers, Herbs and Fruit at Home - you will find everything you need to get started with your adventure, with chapters that offer: WHAT IS VERTICAL GARDENING WHAT CAN BE USED TO CREATE A VERTICAL GARDEN? BENEFITS OF VERTICAL GARDENING ORGANICALLY FERTILIZE YOUR SOIL HOW TO USE TRELLISES, ARBORS, ARCHES, AND PERGOLAS BEST VEGETABLES FOR VERTICAL GARDENS HOW TO CONTROL PESTS AND DISEASE IN YOUR GARDEN ... and more! With the right tools, tips, and techniques, you can grow delicious and nutritious vegetables, the natural way. You'll learn why compost is the only fertilizer you'll ever need, how to identity and control garden pests, and which plants keep the bugs away! Get a copy today and start now!

The Easy VERTICAL VEGETABLE GARDEN For Starters And Dummies

The Easy VERTICAL VEGETABLE GARDEN For Starters And Dummies
Author: James Wilfred
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2021-07-07
Genre:
ISBN:

A vegetable garden or a garden of aromatic plants without using a horizontal surface until some time ago was utopian. The same pot placement of the plants, in any case, represented a subtraction of space, an often-chaotic encumbrance. The technologies used in vertical green can give you the possibility to cultivate a real vertical garden or aromatic garden using a wall of the house or garden. How nice to sow and then see the fruit of your passion grow and even become a source of food support for the family! Can you imagine? Eat what you have grown yourself! How proud would you be? This guide will show you how to make this dream a wonderful reality; it will explain in a simple way the techniques and strategies to have a vertical garden that will make everyone envy. In this book, you will: - Learn What a Vertical Garden Is, a practical solution to creating green areas even without much space. - Discover All the Benefits of Vertical Gardening that can be psychological, health, economic, and, of course, environmental. - Know Vegetables for Vertical Gardens to sow and grow those suitable for cultivation in a vertical vegetable garden. - Learn to Choose What to Grow to get exactly what you need and desire. - Care for Your Plants; they need water, soil fertilizer, light, proper temperature, and some extra care. Dedicate them a little time and follow the practical tips, simple and fundamental to make them show their best appearance. - ... & Lot More!

Growing Vegetables and Fruits Upwards

Growing Vegetables and Fruits Upwards
Author: Steve MUFIA
Publisher:
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781720113058

Are you constrain by space of your garden or backyard and compromise on eating unhealthy vegetables and fruits that have been hosed down with toxic chemicals by industrial farmers? If your answer is yes, then this is the right book for you.Vertical gardening enables harvesting of your produce easily and can be practiced in spaces as small as a container. You do not require expertise or prior experience to practice vertical gardening. Vertical gardening requires no special tools or equipment. Everything you need you either had, or can easily be made, or purchase cheaply at local nursery.Vertical cultivation has been implemented for quite some years now, popularizing as "urban gardening". Something that has become a very attractive current trend, as it offers us an effective and economic option to have fresh and organic fruit and vegetables within our reach. Meanwhile, providing us with that contact with nature that refreshes our spirit and motivates us to live our lives to coalesce our most productive initiatives.

The Ornamental Vegetable Garden

The Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Author: Diana Anthony
Publisher: Warwick House Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Edible landscaping
ISBN: 9781894020558

Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.