When there is not much room for a garden you have to go up. Vertical gardens are great for small spaces. Ideally you choose plants that climb up like beans and peas. But strawberries also work. It depends on the construction. What have you got around?
There are many materials that can be used in upcycling. One example are vertical gardens from plastic bottles like described in this post: Strawberry Tower from Plastic.
Other materials are milk cartons strapped to a fence or wooden pallets like in these pictures taken at urban gardens in Berlin:
Prinzessinengarten Berlin / Vertical Garden from Wood Pallets
Another way to use wood pallets is shown in the below picture, a more professional approach with an irrigation system.
Klunkerkranich Berlin / Vertical Garden from pallets
Drink cartons accumulate over time in most households. Turned upside down they work as flower pots. When leaving the cap part open at the bottom it is a perfect drainage system. They can be hung onto a fence or balcony.
Prinzessinengarten Berlin / Vertical Garden from Milk Cartons
Sadly our sunshade umbrella broke. Now it’s turned into a vertical garden frame for sugar peas. It can be used for any climbing plants like beans, peas, nasturtium etc.
The picture shows the start of two small towers as I had only a few bottles – all in different sizes. I mainly use glass and avoid plastic wherever possible. So I gathered them from my family, sat down for 10mins to read the instruction, another 10mins slicing up bottles and squeezing in dirt and strawberries and YAY to the start of my new vertical garden.
I will probably continue it whenever I come across more bottles – I am not in a rush.
