How to make a vertical garden
How to make a vertical garden
The walls of vertical gardens or crops, gardens are planted vertically on a wall, using two sheets of fiberglass, with a coconut fiber substrate to anchor the roots. It resembles the hydroponic gardens, where fertilizers are added to plants through nutrient substances.
These gardens are being used in places where there is little room for conventional gardens, or urban gardens where plants for planting space provided is limited and sometimes irregular.
To make a vertical garden, you need a preferably metallic structure, which can be purchased at garden stores, or made from a wire story and a little creativity. This metal frame is hung on the wall in a way that is completely glued to it, but have a bit of separation to avoid excess moisture and to let in some oxygen.
You can use two sheets of PVC or fiberglass, cut to the desired size. Between the two plates is placed a layer of felt where plants take root and coconut fiber. Basically it works like a hydroponic garden, with drip irrigation with nutrients, and in an environment without soil.
You can plant all kinds of ornamental plants and flowers, and plants such as eggplants, strawberries, melons, beans, among others.
Another way to make vertical gardens is through a vertical cross-armor made of wood, in a rectangle, where plants are planted vines, which grow vertically, centered on a single space.