Plant herbs and flowers in vertical gardens.
Not all plant-lovers live in places with lots of space for landscaping. Some only have tiny backyards while others have only a small balcony or part of an apartment building roof. This does not mean these people can't have gardens. It just means they have to get creative. You can create a vertical garden small spaces with a little ingenuity and some creative thinking. Not only do these gardens save space, they are versatile and can be mobile.
Gutter Gardens
Anyone who has cleaned rain gutters knows plants love to sprout in them, making them the perfect medium for a vertical garden. Simply cut some old rain gutters in to equal pieces and bolt them to a wall or a trellis set against a wall. Smaller pieces can stagger for an artistic look or longer pieces may simply hang in a column. A little potting soil, some mature compost and a few seeds or seedlings complete the garden. Herbs, vining plants like strawberries and peppers, and small flowers grow very nicely in this recycled vertical garden.
Shoe Holder
Those with large shoe collections are familiar with hanging shoe holders, vinyl sheets with pockets sewn into them at even intervals. Hooks at the top of the sheet suspend the shoe holder from most doors. Since the pockets are made for holding shoes, they are also large enough for holding small flowers and herbs. Simply fill each pocket with dirt and slip a seedling or seeds inside with it. The new garden may hang on the back of a porch or kitchen door. Gardeners should be careful when watering plants in this kind of garden. Since the vinyl holds lots of water in the soil, plants need watering very infrequently.
Stacked Pots
Terracotta pots come in dozens of sizes from several gallons to just a few ounces. Innovative gardeners can create an original and appealing garden from several of these pots. A very large pot, seven gallons or more, serves as the base. A piece of plastic piping runs down the center and the pot fills with dirt. The second pot slides onto the pipe via its drain hole and is filled with dirt and so on until all the pots sit in a tower. The gardener then plants each pot.
