| If you are a gardener and spend a lot of time | | | | save an incredible amount of space, but having |
| outdoors planning your vegetable or flower garden | | | | vegetables grow upwards in this manner make it |
| then you share that love of the smell of freshly | | | | much easier to pick the beans or peppers once |
| turned earth with many people who have 'green | | | | they are ripened. |
| thumbs'. Springtime is a much anticipated time for | | | | |
| the average gardener as there are plots to plan | | | | Another space-saving idea for a garden of any |
| and seeds and bulbs to purchase. | | | | size is to use live plants as edging. When we think |
| | | | | of garden edging, brick, stone or metal edging |
| Perhaps you have both an garden in your yard | | | | usually comes to mind. But to the gardener with |
| and an greenhouse on your property. If you find | | | | limited space, he or she will cleverly use herbs as |
| that you are running out of room for your herbs, | | | | garden edging to define areas of the garden. |
| foliage, fruits or vegetables then maybe it is time | | | | |
| to purchase one of the many types of vertical | | | | If the idea of using herbs to edge your garden is |
| growing systems that are the market. This type | | | | appealing to you, then be sure to choose herbs |
| of system allows you to stack pots in vertical | | | | that can withstand high traffic. Select herbs that |
| towers that allows for very high density | | | | are rather compact and that are easy to cut |
| production in a far smaller amount of space. You | | | | back if they should outgrow. The best choices for |
| can grow most anything vertically. Broccoli, | | | | edging with herbs are thyme, parsley, sage and |
| lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, greens, ivy, | | | | chives. |
| peppers, eggplants, basil corn or flowers thrive in | | | | |
| this type of space saving growing system. | | | | No matter how small of a garden area you have, |
| | | | | you can make the most out of that space by |
| Gardening on vertical walls is commonly done by | | | | utilizing some of the methods mentioned here. |
| people who have limited garden space. A | | | | There is no reason not to grow plants vertically, |
| vegetable wall can easily be created by planting | | | | use trellises whenever possible and make use of |
| vegetables such as beans and peppers next to a | | | | live and edible plants as a great way to bring |
| wall and providing them with a trellis of some sort | | | | definition to your garden. |
| so that they can climb vertically. Not only will you | | | | |