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Why are vertical gardens a better alternative to regular gardening?
The three points that are most important to any gardener are efficiency, yield, and beauty. The efficiency that is displayed in conventional gardening techniques leaves much to be desired. There is the unavoidable space left between the plants, but this is no where near minimized by regular gardening. Yield is also negatively impacted by the current form that gardening takes in our culture. Much of the crop is waisted because it is simply too close to the ground or through other innate flaws in our gardening system such as animals or pests being able to reach the crop due to its proximity to the ground. The last object on a gardeners list of importance (and to many the most important) is beauty. Beauty is something that is very difficult to judge or compare, but to many, the use of space is a beauty in itself, so it stands to reason that using all three dimensions, instead of having the flat, boring growth we have now would be a vast improvement.
Among vertical gardening's most obvious benefits is spacial efficiency, but that is far from the only way that a vertical garden is more efficient than its conventional counterpart. With a vertical garden, less water is used because there is less wasteful dirt to soak up all of the water meant for the plant. There is also less room for weeds to sprout, resulting in less time spent pulling the weeds. If all of those reasons are not enough to prove to you the efficiency of vertical gardens, consider the obvious. The space needed to grow crops in a vertical garden is much less, making it possible to grow crops in places you would never have considered to be a valid location for any kind of plant life. There is a world of possibilities for a gardener looking for an efficient garden layout, but I hope that this technique will peak your interest enough to tempt you into trying it out in your garden.
Farming of often centered around the production of fruit or vegetables, therefor yield is a very important method for measuring the success of the gardening technique being used. Vertical gardening has several very important points that raise it above its competition. As previously mentioned, it is much more efficient in spaced used, so more crops can be placed in the same space, resulting in a higher yield, but there are also several less obvious reasons it delivers a higher yield. When the fruit or produce from the plant is raised into the air, it makes it much more difficult for small animals or pests to attach themselves to the fruit or even the plant. This technique also discourages the growth of fungi, due to the airflow that is capable. Finally, yield can be increased simply due to the ease of harvest. It is more likely that you will miss one or two of the produce on the vine or plant when it is all on the ground, in a difficult to see and difficult to reach location compared to being stacked in a trellis like formation. As you can see, yield is significantly increased in several ways by vertical gardening.
The final point to consider is beauty. Defining beauty is often thought of as a taboo due to its versatility between different people and the way which it inspires such different reactions in so many different people. Nature is often though of as one of the most beautiful things on this planet. If you mix this sentiment with the feeling that true from comes from function, you have a testament to the vertical gardens beauty. Providing a beautiful, lush backdrop for your small garden or planter with vertical gardens is one of the more important parts of beauty in a garden, and a point that this garden technique fulfills perfectly.
