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| Hello all. Spring is right around the corner, and I thought I'd post a few pictures of the vertical garden I did last year. I use mainly over the door shoe organizer. They are held upright on my fences with zip ties and S hooks. Results were better than I anticipated. Enjoy! |
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- Posted by wolfychick 8 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 27, 13 at 2:23
| Gorgeous! Question: Do you put little holes in bottom of pockets for draining, or does the material naturally drain? |
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| Very clever. A bonus is the screen effect hiding both the fence and the neighbor. Al |
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| Thanks for the kind comments! These make indeed a great conversation piece. Neighbors peeking out the window, all wondering wth this crazy mans doing! They make for added privacy, and I've pushed this concept further. I had old car shelter metal poles around, theyre about 10 feet long. I put them along fence poles and tense a metal wire between them. Then planted grape vines and trained them espalier style (so they dont shade the shoe planter!) and im letting them fill out the space above the planter. So fence gets 10 feet tall and produce lots of salad and grapes! I didnt not punch any holes at the bottom, the material these organizers are made of actually breathers, even though its not a natural fabric, more like polyester or something. The downside of these is they need constant watering, so this year im designing and auto irrigation system for these |
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| heres a picture of the grape setup, its very simple, 10f tall pole of any kind, 2 zip ties, and a metal wire to tense between the poles. A few basic tools help you complete this project. :) |
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| I even did cherry tomatoes in those tiny planters as a test! That was the shoe organizer planter limitation however as production was limited. But as you can see, the fruit is flawless! Im doing most of this research in order to make urban backyard farming productive and profitable. Ive got 3000sq ft and I must make a living at this, so being creative about how to grow more yield in a tiny space is not really optional. Ive got about 4 different vertical systems I use or have invented and use. Theyre all very efficient and take almost no space, complement each other, and this year, im out to prove that this can be a very profitable venture to go into, considering produce is sold to consumers and restaurants that is. I also did lots of strawberries in those. About 500 Temptation cultivar strawberry plants. If anyone is interested in knowing, the following plants will grow almost as big as if planted in ground and produce almost as much in such a system : Lettuce, carrotts, strawberries, all herbs, onions, garlic. Im currently testing out Edamame (soybeans), chantenay red cored 2 carrots, and a bunch of other things i can not remember. Smaller yield per unit but 30 times more units per square foot. I think I've got the recipe for successful urban farming :) |
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- Posted by Tayinnawin_Nell 7 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 12:02
| You have no idea how much I have obsessed over this since I saw this last night. I have already performed a mental inventory of every heavy-duty fabric scrap and usable material (burlap, window screen mesh, etc...) that I have on hand (read:hoarded) You see, I am an artist, an "I do it, MAMA" person, and a TX Master Gardener. I once ran an urban education/community garden and tried to teach innovation, creativity and practical re purposing. You have no idea of the things we could have done if I had only seen this 3 years ago! I had 3/4 of an acre surrounded by chain-link fence! Our food-bank donations would have been ridiculous (in amazing way). People like you, who share knowledge like this, are the catalyst to a world of useful creativity! Thank you!!! |
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| Thank you for your kind words, those are the fuel that keeps me going :) 3/4 of an acre is something like 25000 plants right there! Fences truly are the most underutilized hardware in our society...i dont like fences, so i cover them in food :-p It is readily apparent that old business models are dying. Here in Canada and in the rest of the modern world. They are destructive for the most part and wasteful of ressources that are not available anymore anyway. I believe theres massive value in ideas and in creativity. My favority hobby is walking around and finding new purposes for existing things/structures and finding better ways to do things we already do. Needs are unlimited, ressources are limited, but creativity is endless. Khaled :) |
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- Posted by wolfychick none (My Page) on Sun, Mar 17, 13 at 16:43
| Mr K, I just have to post again to thank you for this wonderful idea! I have a deck on front of my house. I live next door to my parents and you should have seen their faces when they saw me hanging a shoe organizer on it! LOL! |
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