Being an urban gardener means I have several areas that I
garden in. I have a garden plot in a
city garden that is 11’ x 4’ where I do square foot gardening. I have pots in front of my townhome where I
have my sun loving flowers, and I have a small backyard that is mostly a shade
and dappled shade garden.

In my backyard growing
vegetables in my planter boxes doesn’t work :’-( because of all the shade but I do have 2
walls that get a fair amount of sun throughout the day, not 8 hours but enough
morning sun to grow lettuce and such (surprisingly the strawberries do quite
well as well).

Last year I did a lot of research on a vertical gardening system
for my backyard in order to take advantage of that sun and came across Wall
Garden by www.verticalgardenusa.com It’s a set of 6 planters that you mount to a
wall. From my research, I gathered that
you got the most cubic footage of vertical planting space for your money
compared to other vertical planting systems.
I bought one set to test it out and if it does well I was going to buy a
second set…

Well, I LOVE IT! They’re
modular and pretty light weight, even with the soil, and they hold way more
than I was expecting!

I got them mounted late summer/early fall last year so I
haven’t had heavy duty plants in it yet but so far so good! I will keep you
guys posted. I plan on buying a second
set soon for edible flowers/carrots/beets/radish, I just have to figure out how
to mount it to my second wall.

The reason why I want planters mounted to a wall instead of
using a tower or general gardening shelving is because the city rats and
squirrels like to eat my food! They will
climb up a tower or up the shelving; mounting these planters high enough up the
wall keeps my food safe from their prying little paws.

Out front I have a large pot with my cucumbers. The variety of cucumbers I bought are small
so I made a small trellis with bamboo poles and wire mesh. It’s 6’ tall.
This is my first time trying this out so we’ll see how it goes!

How do you all make urban gardening work for you?

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