City gardeners can become obsessed about walls. They are the predominant feature of cities. If gardeners had their way every wall surface would be netted and carry a crop of summer beans, both for their beautiful flowers but also for a fresh supply of runner beans throughout the summer. The truly edible city. Runner beans …Read More about Climbing the walls
Vertical Gardening
Vertical gardening gallery
Vertical gardening is for gardeners who do not have a lot of horizontal space. It has become a niche science these days with many elaborate and quite amazing systems, often involving hydroponics and engineered structures that cover whole walls several stories high. It is well worth researching carefully what is the most useful system for …Read More about Vertical gardening gallery
End of the summer season
The summer season is over for another year and the garden is being cleared for its winter rest. This type of gardening is a form of temporary gardening installed each spring to take advantage of the growing season then packed away each winter. This particularly suits people in rented property or with only temporary access …Read More about End of the summer season
Stair wall netting
How to turn a plain stair wall into a hedge. By hanging a simple string net a few inches off a wall climbing beans can be grown across the whole wall. As beans produce about 1 metre above ground level this leaves a useful growing space for herbs, peppers and salads below. While the netting …Read More about Stair wall netting
Summer garden
This garden is very much a summer garden, designed to produce a lot of vegetables over the summer and early fall and then put to rest over the winter months. Working with the limited space it is important not to overtax the soil and allow a winter rest period for the garden (and the gardener). …Read More about Summer garden
Bean netting progress
Creating your own “hanging gardens of Babylon” in a city garden is every urban gardener’s dream. While using lines of string to draw climbing plants up works well, having the cross strings of the netting enables the gardener to slow down the “shooting to the top.” In a corner space such as this stairwell, the …Read More about Bean netting progress