Self-Contained Vertical Garden Kit Lets You Grow a Salad Indoors or Out
February 6, 2009 – 7:09 pm by Lindsay
Gardening in the city, and even surburban areas, often means there isn’t a lot of room for planting. That’s a big reason why “vertical gardening” is becoming so popular. This is when you train plants to grow up instead of out and over the ground.
In addition to being a space saver, it can improve the health and productivity of your edible plants too. Keeping vines, fruits, and veggies out of the soil improves airflow and cuts down the likelihood of disease and rot.
You’ve probably seen trellises of all sorts, but this vertical gardening kit from Smith & Hawken takes things to the next level. It basically combines container gardening with the trellis idea, tipping a bed on its side and providing columns and rows of individual containers for you to plant. Its made of cedar (a weather-resistant wood) so it can be used outdoors, but if you have a sunny window pouring light into your kitchen, you could also use this kit indoors.
“Get your garden growing—vertically. This ingenious living wall is great for growing a garden in small spaces—indoors or out. Plant one or display in multiples to create a living, oxygenating work of art in your entryway, kitchen, or balcony…anywhere that receives direct sunlight.”
At $400 the kit isn’t exactly inexpensive, but you could check it out and figure out how to make something like this yourself. It’s available at Smith & Hawken: Large Vertical Garden.
Tags: gardening, vertical gardens
4 Responses to “Self-Contained Vertical Garden Kit Lets You Grow a Salad Indoors or Out”
That’s pretty neat looking. It’s nice to see an indoor kit that is actually reasonably good looking.
By Fern @ Life on the Balcony.com on Feb 10, 2009
Interesting…but why would you spend $400 to get a few bucks worth of lettuce?
Or, more to the point, why would you have to spend $400 to get your hands on a thing like that? I’ll bet you could build it yourself for a fraction of the price. A Google search for vertical garden kits brings up a passle of much more reasonably priced schemes, many of them hydroponic; googling “vertical wall garden kits” elicits a number of sites, some with clues to how to make one yourself.
By Funny about Money on Feb 17, 2009
this would be very interesting to see how it is made. great post.
By Carla on Feb 17, 2009
@Carla Too bad they don’t give ya the plans, heh. I agree with FAM that $400 is too much for a garden bed, but it’s hard to tell what’s going on behind those leaves to see how to make it. I think the ad said there is a water reservoir and everything.
By admin on Feb 17, 2009