Vertical Gardening Ideas For Small Yards Or Balconies

Planting up is the perfect solution for those living in small yards or balconies, providing your skyline with beautiful flowers and edibles that add color and flavour.

Find vine-like and trailing plants, like clematis or jasmine, which can be trained into vines for training purposes and choose herbs which provide both flavor and fragrance.

1. Hanging Baskets

Hanging plants from your balcony railing is one of the simplest and easiest ways to add greenery. Coco coir baskets or pretty wooden pots make great choices, perfect for herbs that can easily be picked for cooking, as well as colorful flowers and trailing vines that offer beautiful varieties.

An old ladder can easily be transformed into a vertical garden trellis by attaching planter boxes or pots to each of its rungs – this method makes for ideal container gardening of herbs or other tall vegetables that need to be contained.

If you don’t own a ladder, try making use of an existing storage shelf by filling its pockets with soil and planting herbs or small vegetables in them. Be sure to add drainage holes so as to avoid flooding and root rot.

2. Trellis

Trellis makes an excellent garden wall that can serve to both frame an outdoor seating area and kitchen window as well as conceal unsightly fences or walls.

Consider installing a trellis for herbs, veggies and flowers like jasmine, honeysuckle and clematis on your balcony to add color and attract bees that help maintain air quality. Not only can they grow fast but their flowers attract bees that improve air quality as well.

Hanging plants from a trellis is an attractive way to transform your balcony into a miniature Babylon. Additionally, adding a watering station will keep planters hydrated with minimal effort – these stylish watering cans also double as decor for your vertical balcony garden! They come in different sizes that accommodate different plant heights.

3. Tumbling

Trellises are an ideal way to jump-start vertical gardening, as they can be constructed out of any number of materials ranging from wire, fishing line and mesh lattice lattice fence to wooden fencing and even metal railings. When training vines young to climb your trellis it is key that sufficient growing space between plants exists for proper development.

Hanging planters are another great choice. Coco coir baskets, clay pots or window boxes with coco coir fiber can be suspended from a hook so as to grow strawberries, cherry tomatoes, herbs and bush beans. However, keep in mind that hanging plants will require more frequent watering due to drying out quicker.

Do not forget to incorporate pollinator flowers or seed mixes that attract bees into your green walls as pollination helps pollinate flowers while providing delicious honey as an additional benefit.

4. Hanging Planters

Hanging gardens are an aesthetically pleasing way to enlarge the planting space on any balcony or outdoor space. From coco coir baskets hanging from railings, to macrame planters containing herbs – hanging gardens create visual intrigue while providing a touch of verdancy in outdoor settings.

Vertical arrangements make an effective use of plants grown in containers, including trailing vines and more full, rounder plants like ferns and flowers. Just ensure sun-loving species hang directly under sunlight while shadow-lovers remain out of direct light.

Cinderblock walls, fences or dividers make ideal containers for growing cucumbers or beans as hanging gardens. Elevating vegetables off the ground reduces exposure to fungus and rot as well as making harvesting simpler when harvesting time arrives.

5. Ladders

Mark Twain once wrote, “Land is scarce and expensive, so gardens must grow up.” Luckily, you don’t require much land to cultivate an attractive balcony garden that adds color and flavour to your home.

Training climbing plants to climb on trellises, fencing or other freestanding structures to form an attractive green wall on your balcony. Pots may also be attached along outdoor walls as well as hanging baskets from railings or fixtures for further decorative touch.

Build a plywood frame planter to hold succulents or herbs. Old rain boots or garden shoes make great containers for lettuces or strawberries; alternatively store gardening tools in an outdoor shelf unit for convenient access.