I made a vertical planter...............I won't be able to hang it till about Memorial Day, but so far it's looking pretty good. I started with a 4x4 foot wooden pallet. This is what it looks like now.
I found a smaller pallet down in the "stash" the Spousal Unit has.......hmmmm...........thinking of having him cut it in half and making a succulents out of it. The pallets are hardwood, so they will last forever.
I have been toying with the idea of making a vertical garden compost heap with pallets and / or lattice since I have a piece hanging around. Can't seem to get to it.
Hmmm......well, it probably isn't has hard as I made it, but I can never do anything in a small way. I mean, I HAD to start with a 4x4 FOOT one. LOL I think it would have been ok had I had some kind of watering system in it. Couldn't really water it decent when it was "vertical"......the soil would come out of the holes. So I gave up and laid it back down flat and it did well. LOL
I was wondering about the watering part. I've only tried vertical systems a couple of times, and that was always the difficulty. The stuff on the bottom tried to come out or got soaked, and the stuff on the top dried out.
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Watering is what stops me too. I have a concrete basketball court that I would like to mask with a living wall from both sides. Thus creating a backdrop for the court and a court yard between the wall and the house. I decided, I may could do a 24 ft span like that. I was thinking plastic grow bags through the spaces. Where that might work with the dirt and the plants. I cannot figure out the watering problem. I think it would be way more work than I want to do. lol. But I am going to research and see if I can come up with something. If you can solve the problem let me know. thank you.
If I were to try something like that, I would perforate lengths of pvc pipe every foot or so and fill them with water and let it trickle through. I would try a vertical pattern vs a horizontal one and see which works best. But really, I don't see me spending time actually doing it.
Kits. They had lots of TV ads this spring showing a lady planting one. Of course they gave her an easy one. Should have seen her slapping those plants down into that lattice. Wouldn't have done it on the lattice I had............
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