Since it’s winter, that means it’s time to work on garden planning. If you’re like me and you have a small space to work with, one thing you’ll want to do is to stack functions.
What does that mean? What is a function, and how do you stack it?
Stacking functions is multitasking for the garden.While you can throw a few shrubs into a small garden and call it a day, if you’d like to grow food in your garden or create a multidimensional and beautiful garden that’s packed with color, you’ll probably want to add a little bit more.
How can you maximize your garden space?
Grow up. Vertical gardening on trellises or in hanging planters is a great way to get more space. You can plant lettuce in hanging planters on your front porch, or you can hang herbs from tree branches like I do.
Use unconventional places to grow. My daughter has a play house that creates shade in part of our garden. However, the roof of this play house is nice and sunny. This year, I’m going to run sun-loving vines over the roof!
Stack, literally. One of this year’s plans it to put a planter in the garden. It will have potato bags on top to grow potatoes where they’re off the ground. In the hollow area under the planter, I’ll have a small bird bath cascading down, and I’ll plant wet-loving plants around it. Use up those awkward and unused spaces!
View everything as a garden. We have a deck that’s probably best for sitting on. It’s also one of the sunniest places in our house. Instead of sitting out there or storing our junk on the deck, I plant my tomatoes there. I also use my house as a garden, growing microgreens, sprouts, and mushrooms indoors. Any unused shelf space can become a garden!
How do you maximize your garden space?
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