DIY Tips for Modular Gardening

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There are so many different ways and types of growing plants in a vertical garden, that to choose the best one to meet your specific expectations might be quite overwhelming. In all cases, a vertical garden gives you a number of advantages, and with the help of a couple essential tips, you can achieve some awesome results. Let’s take a look at the advantages of the vertical modular gardening first.

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Advantage No1. You can choose which specific types of plants to grow, according to the choice of the wall for modular gardening. This is due to the orientation of this type of gardening, which usually takes place in a vertical orientation right next to a wall of the house, alongside the fence or even at home. There are also modules that can be attached to the walls, while others hang on wires and screws. Others include plants and flowers in separate pots, which on the other hand, can sit on numerous shelves. The common thing between all these types for modular gardening is the choice of the wall. If you decorate the entire southern wall, which is warmer, you can take advantage of growing even fruity plants and other edibles all around the year. If you choose a wall that is opposite to a window, meaning more natural sunlight for your plants – you can grow only some specific plants that require plenty of sunlight.

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Advantage No2. The space saving advantage when growing plants in modules is unmatched when compared to all other types of perfect home gardening. Only the frame construction gives you the same opportunity, but you can’t hang a heavy pot or even a small pot to a thin almost invisible frame and that’s why the frame gardening is perfect mostly for old, high-growing plants. The different modules are indispensable for keeping fruits, herbs, veggies and other edibles at home. The infinite ways for arrangement of the separate pots, or modules, let you to use your imagination and talent for decoration to create a truly spectacular layout of the walls in your home.

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Second, some tips and tricks are always useful when making your own modular garden:
– Leave enough free space in a vertical orientation between the pots, or the modules. One it will ensure a proper leaf clearance when your plants grow up and two – it will make your garden layout easily serviceable. At last but not at least, the free space means an impeccable sunlight exposure, which is very important during the cold season.
– Plant seeds of veggies and edibles in transparent jars. This is a common way for ensuring enough light for onion, carrots, garlic and other commons.
– Make a safe-sufficient watering system with tiny holes and endless networks of tiny tubes that interconnect every individual pot of the modules with a source of water. This can make the layout of your vertical home garden to look very scientific and surrealist, but quite effective too, especially for the hottest months.
– Transform the wall adjacent to the racks and the shelves under the stairways into a modular garden. In this way, you can completely mask the doors and the hangers of the numerous shelves, while in the meantime the effect will jazz up the decoration of the stairs.
– Use old empty plastic bottles and drill large openings to transform them into the perfect transparent modules for hanging the modules on wires. Choose thick fishing lines as invisible wires, so to make an eye-catching illusion of freely floating or self-supporting modules on the fence.