Vertical Gardening Workshop
- Saturday, May 30, 2015, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Date: May 30, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: Bonesteel’s Gardening Center; 2689 State Route 11, North Bangor
Cost: Free; with coffee and snacks provided
For those with limited garden space or planning smaller, traditional or raised bed vegetable gardens, vertical gardening; growing up, instead of out, can increase yields and variety. Getting the most out of every bit of available space, even where you might never have thought it possible.
Crops can often be produced in one quarter, or even one tenth of the space of a traditional garden by:
- training garden vining crops to a trellis (i.e. peas, beans, cucumbers; acorn, butternut, or spaghetti squash)
- gardening in containers, hanging baskets, and/or boxes placed at different heights along walls and/or on tables
- using tiered gardens grown in crates or planters set on crates, arranged as or upon stairs or stair-like constructions
- planting gardens entirely on shelving structures
- combining the use of any or all of these techniques
Vertical gardens can be attractive in landscapes, as well as on decks, porches, or patios. Designs can be as simple or as imaginative as you wish, have time for, or can afford. And, because vertical gardening utilizes many of the concepts and techniques associated with container and raised bed gardening, plants and beds can be placed at heights that are more easily worked by gardeners with limited mobility, diminished stamina, or other physical limitations.
If you’d like to learn more, attend this free workshop being offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Franklin County in cooperation with Bonesteel's Gardening Center.
Fee
FREE
Learn More
https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/Gardening_216
Location
Bonesteel's Gardening Center
2689 State Route 11
North Bangor, NY 12966
Last updated May 26, 2015