Mateusz Watt 
Growing vertical gardens increases harvest yields while beautifying your garden and saving space, while simultaneously decreasing weed growth. You can use trellises or fences to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers vertically.
Vegetables grown vertically can produce prettier fruits due to gravity’s effects. Furthermore, there will be less yellow spots as dirt won’t get splashed onto them as often.
Easy to maintain
Vertical gardening requires much less maintenance than in-ground gardens, as most climbing beans and peas grow vertically without assistance from trellises or stakes.
Gardeners can use materials already on hand, like pallets, to craft inexpensive trellises and supports. Planters made from used mason jars or coffee mugs offer another eco-friendly means of growing herbs or flowers.
Vertical gardens make harvesting and picking vegetables simpler since they don’t hide behind tall foliage. However, non-ground crops may need additional moisture-incorporation measures such as frequent watering.
Attracts pollinators
Planting vines or other vegetation on trellises or structures encourages pollinators, such as bees and hummingbirds, to visit. Their visits help promote healthy ecosystems.
Vertical gardens tend to be less vulnerable to diseases, pests and weeds than perpendicular ones; however, they may require additional water and fertilizer.
Make sure that the materials used to construct your vertical garden are lightweight. Heavy planters or outdoor structures mounted to walls could topple over when plants grow too large, so be sure to rotate crops yearly to prevent soil depletion and diseases.
Attracts bees
Trellises can be an efficient and effective way to grow plants like tomatoes, squash and cucumbers that climb – or other climbers – more uniformly and with reduced disease exposure since the plants are off the ground.
Planting a vertical garden of lavender (Lavandula spp) or sunflowers (Helianthus spp) will draw bees. Both produce pollen and nectar that serves as food sources for long-tongued bees.
Vertical gardening doesn’t need to be complicated: just plant herbs in an old ladder or wooden rack on your balcony for a great vertical gardening setup! Just make sure that watering regularly and rotating crops annually to prevent disease are part of your routine to ensure optimal success.
Attracts birds
Vertical gardens provide wildlife with shelter while helping conserve natural ecosystems. When chosen wisely, plants in vertical gardens can also provide essential resources such as food and shelter – birds are great pollinators who enjoy nesting areas among dense plants – saving time by eating away at any weed seeds that might arise in your garden!
Vertical gardens provide the ideal setting to grow an assortment of vegetables, flowers and herbs – including plants like trumpet vine and rudbeckia, which produce brightly colored blooms that attract hummingbirds.
Attracts butterflies
Butterflies are attracted to vibrantly-colored flowers and plants with constant sources of nectar, shelter from wind and rain and bloom throughout the year. You can attract butterflies by planting perennial flowering plants that bloom all year long with both native and non-native species of blooming flowering plants – but avoid pesticides which kill pollinators while entering food chains.
Use trellises and arbors to add vertical space to your butterfly garden, then fill it with climbing plants such as ivy or vines that cover them while providing beauty and fragrance. You might even include host plants for butterfly caterpillars if possible!
Attracts beetles
Vertical gardens benefit from increased sun exposure, encouraging beneficial insects that prey upon pests to protect themselves. This natural method of pest control is both cost-effective and friendlier to the environment than chemical-based solutions which may harm ecosystems.
Practice meticulous garden hygiene and crop rotation as key strategies for eliminating pests in a vertical garden. Both practices can significantly decrease pest attraction while improving soil quality, leading to enhanced overall plant vitality. Other preventive strategies may include using neem oil or diatomaceous earth which disrupt pest life cycles; or choosing pest-resistant plants like basil or marigolds which emit aromatic scents which deter insects away from your plants.
Attracts worms
Vertical gardening requires less space, making it ideal for urban gardens or those with limited outdoor space.
Vertical gardening allows you to utilize an assortment of plants, from herbs and vegetables to flowers and fruit. They can be grown in containers, hanging baskets or on trellises and fences.
Regular harvesting will keep your plants healthy and promote more growth, while feeding worms to birds will attract them – just keep in mind that doing this could make the soil acidic enough to negatively affect your garden!
