Grow Up!: Vertical Gardening

Reader Contribution by Joshua Burman Thayer and Native Sun Gardens
Published on January 20, 2021
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Photo by Unsplash/Cherry Laithang

The first step in the permaculture design process is observation on site. In the northern hemisphere, creating thermal mass to the garden’s north provides a warming effect.

The northern edge of the garden also has the opportunity to house a vertical strutter that can bolster harvests for small spaces. We erected a vertical wall where we grow herbs on the vertical in pockets, and artichokes and Jerusalem artichokes atop the wooden structure. Our garden receives approximately 150 pounds of herbs and produce on this added urban garden vertical system.

Photo by Joshua Burman Thayer 

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