Gardening in grow bags is a method that you can try in certain conditions. An example is if you are living in a city and don’t have too large land for gardening.
Creating a vegetable garden is the most popular solution for that situation. You can use pots, cans, or bottles as planting media. Gardening bags is one of the best solutions to try as well.
You can hang them on the wall or set up a special wooden board for this garden. However, remember that these pots will be heavy due to the soil and water, so you need to make sure they are hanging securely.
The Grow Bags Details
Grow bags come in certain details that you should know. Usually, it is made of plastic, and as time goes by there is an innovation to use the breathable one.
However, sometimes they are made of felt or non-woven fabric as well. They are different in size and those range from 1 up to 5 gallon or maybe more.
Another innovation that you can get from a grow bag is it is biodegradable. It means that you can just throw away this bag after the growing session ends.
Then this item will be biodegraded by nature naturally on certain days only. Since it has so many positive sides, you can plant almost all crops for this gardening in grow bags concept.
The Gardening in Grow Bags Ideas
There are so many beautiful and interesting ideas that you can use by applying these bags to your garden. Here are some of the ideas, even for a small land as well.
1. Mini Garden Inside a Small Box
The concept is placing a small grow bag inside the wood box. Low wooden boxes can be used as portable “mini” vegetable gardens. It is suitable if sunlight does not reach the entire yard.
Wooden boxes and grow bags can be an ideal planting medium. It is especially those where the wooden panels have gaps that is suitable for irrigation. You can put wheels on the bottom for easy movement if necessary.
You can plant vegetables that are easy to grow and often harvested, such as carrots, lettuce, cabbage, and onions. They look beautiful when grown together, but after harvest, they will look “deflated” so they don’t take up much space.
2. Plant vegetables and flowers alternately
Planting flowers around your vegetable garden can help repel certain pests as well as attract beneficial insects. You can also get beautiful views with this kind of garden.
For example, marigolds or geraniums are suitable for repelling several types of beetles. Asters are suitable for attracting insects that eat pests, such as ladybugs. Sunflowers and zinnias can attract pollinating insects.
When planting vegetables and flowers, make sure they are not crowded together. You should also consider the design so that the garden doesn’t look “holey” when the vegetables have been harvested.
The remaining flowers should keep the garden beautiful until your vegetables grow again. Gardening in grow bags can support this idea since these bags come in various beautiful colors.
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