Vertical Gardening
Has anyone had any experience - positive or negative - with vertical gardening?
In my never ending quest to expand my garden, I'm contemplating building something like this. My version of this lovely planter would probably look a lot more utilitarian and be a bit longer. Okay...a lot longer. Eight feet longer. I have a space that isn't working for green beans but might be brilliant for strawberries. I say might be brilliant because it's along a north facing fence which means it doesn't get all day sun. (Also why it was a bad choice for green beans.) It's a risk I'm willing to take considering every other strawberry that I've planted has died a horrible, dusty death under the unrelenting Zone 8B sun. My hope is that the partial shade will prevent plant death yet still give enough sunlight for the fruit to ripen.
Or I could be out of my mind.
Thoughts, opinions, suggestions, experiences, encouragement?
In my never ending quest to expand my garden, I'm contemplating building something like this. My version of this lovely planter would probably look a lot more utilitarian and be a bit longer. Okay...a lot longer. Eight feet longer. I have a space that isn't working for green beans but might be brilliant for strawberries. I say might be brilliant because it's along a north facing fence which means it doesn't get all day sun. (Also why it was a bad choice for green beans.) It's a risk I'm willing to take considering every other strawberry that I've planted has died a horrible, dusty death under the unrelenting Zone 8B sun. My hope is that the partial shade will prevent plant death yet still give enough sunlight for the fruit to ripen.
Or I could be out of my mind.
Thoughts, opinions, suggestions, experiences, encouragement?