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This video explains how vertical gardening can help maximise growing space and improve plant health.
I cover support structures, climbing crops, spacing ideas, and simple methods that allow more plants to be grown in a limited area. Vertical growing improves airflow, makes harvesting easier, and increases productivity.
Suitable for small gardens, patios, raised beds, and container growing.
This video can support articles about vertical gardening, small space gardening, growing vegetables in containers, plant supports, and beginner gardening advice.
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tiny plot or garden. Don't think that
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you can grow much. Well, think again.
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There's plenty of things out there the
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way that you can grow stuff. So, welcome
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to Gardening with Ben. We're going to
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talk about maximizing your space in your
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gardens and your a lotments. If you've
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got a tiny garden or no garden at all or
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just a tiny small a lotment, well,
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vertical gardening is getting more and
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more common and getting better by the
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resources of things that are available
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to purchase now to grow things vertical.
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There's so many things that you can grow
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vertically. Obviously, your tomatoes
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grow vertical, your beans, you can get
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squash what climb frames. You can get
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corettes what can climb frames as well.
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You can get peas obviously what grow
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vertically runner beans or your beans.
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Lots and lots of varieties of things
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that can grow upwards now. And obviously
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if you've got like walls or fencing, you
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can put trellis up them. You can put
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hanging baskets up. You can grow
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tomatoes in hanging baskets as well.
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There's varieties out there what you can
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grow in hanging baskets. Obviously
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growing stuff in containers, you will
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need to water it more because it will
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dry out a lot faster. But there's so
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many ways of growing vertically now and
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more and more people are starting to
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take up that method as well as like
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strawberries. Loads of people are
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growing strawberries vertically now.
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Even the mass farmers are starting to
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grow them off the ground because they
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get better produce and better growth in
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them. And I've even seen online in shops
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like where you can get these big towers
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that are hydroponic where the water goes
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up and you can grow all stuff down the
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towers. Now that is something what I'd
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absolutely love to grow something like
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strawberries in one of them and you can
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like even grow lettuce in them and you
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can grow loads of stuff in vertical
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towers these days and it's becoming more
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and more common and obviously I've got
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some pouches what I've hung on the side
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of my shed. I've not put anything in
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them yet. I still need to do that. But
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yeah, I want to maybe try growing some
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lettuce leaves in them or uh flowers in
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them and just making the most of every
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little area that I've got in my a
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lotment. Yes, I have got a big a
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lotment, but you do find that you
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stretch with space and trying to cram
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stuff in and I don't get sun on all of
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my a lotment parts. So, I'm trying to
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find places where I get the sun to make
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it useful more and make the most of it a
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lot more down at the plot. It's also
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about using the space wisely in your
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gardens. Like you can plant your
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radishes with your carrots. You can
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plant salad leaves under brassica plants
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under like your Brussels sprouts and
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your cauliflowers to fill in the spaces.
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You can also use basil under your tomato
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plants. There's loads of companion
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plants out there that you can actually
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grow stuff in. And like I said, it's
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about using the space wisely and only
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growing what you actually need to grow.
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And I should listen to this because I
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grow way too much than I actually need.
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But this year, I have cut back on like
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my tomato plants. I've only got three
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tomato plants. And the amount that I've
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got off them because I put more effort
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into looking after them. Three plants.
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I've got more and more produce off them.
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and it's been absolutely fantastic this
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year for tomatoes. So, if you've got a
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small plot, even use chat GBT or AI to
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take a picture of your garden and say,
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"Design me a vertical garden of growing
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fruit and vegetables and it will design
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it of you." Now, I tried this on an area
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near my plot and I'm thinking I might
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actually do what the AI pictures show me
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of doing up the area. It looks
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absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't be no
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good at doing it because I'm no good at
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DIY, but it's about using your space
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wisely and making the most of it and
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hopefully getting the great rewards and
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the great crops from your plants. So, I
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hope you found that useful. Like I said,
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even draw a plan of your garden and draw
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where you want things to go and
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hopefully you can stick to that plan and
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see how well it grows. And obviously
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keep a log of what grows well, what
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doesn't grow well, and if it grows well,
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then you can do it the year after. If it
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doesn't grow well, you can try something
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else. So, I hope you found that useful.
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Make sure you do drop us a follow and
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leave a comment below if you do vertical
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garden. Until next time everyone,
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remember keep smiling, keep shining to
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keep gardening with
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