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Kit installed a vertical veggie/herb garden on our apartment balcony today. It's very interesting. She used a shoe rack, a spare bike rack, some PVC pipe and a few U bolts. Then she made an upside down tomato hanger out of a used 2 liter bottle of pop, some duct tape and a spare piece of rope. Here it is...



Kale, spinach, mixed salad greens, herbs... You can see we didn't use one of the spots. They didn't sew that one correctly. It's open on the bottom. We start watering on the top and work out way down the wall. Because it's the cloth kind it breathes, the excess trickles down and eventually ends up in the overflow tray, which will be recycled back to the top at the next watering. She used those gel crystals mixed with compost/planting mix to help keep the moisture in the soil.

We now have room in the longer floor planters for our beans, carrots and other things that need deeper or more vertical climbing space. That comes next. We're just waiting on the seedlings to get big enough to transplant.