Do you want to grow your food but you think you can’t because you do not have space? Well, you are not alone. Growing your own vegetables is a healthy, eco-friendly option and has become very popular, but like many people you want to get started but are limited on space.
In this article we will go through space saving ways to grow your vegetables from window boxes to trugs to hydroponic towers! Read on to find out more.
#1 Start an Indoor Garden
An indoor garden where you can grow food all year round, soil-free, may sound like a crazy idea but is proving more and more popular with the green-fingered among us. Hydroponics towers such as the Gardyn Home Kit 4.0 which is the only AI-powered indoor garden has been designed and built to grow 30 plants year-round in just two square feet. An eco-friendly alternative to traditional gardening, which allows you to get closer to nature and grown fresh herbs, greens, and fruit all year round.
#2 Start Small
Let’s not kid ourselves, if gardening turns out to be a fad, baby steps are the only way to go for you. Start by growing small veg, herbs and baby versions of larger veg to take the risk out of your green-fingered forays. Look at growing herbs such as rosemary, thyme, micro herbs or chilies and cherry tomatoes. These are all reasonably easy to grow and don’t take up much space.
#3 Branch out
With land-use at a premium for many of us but having zero outside space, allotments and community gardens offer us a place to start at a modest cost. Contact local authorities and enquire as to whether there any community projects nearby that have space for a vegetable plot, or rent an allotment space to get yourself started.
#4 Use the space you have
City centre apartments with no outdoor space are more and more common and it’s likely you have discounted the prospect of growing your own vegetables food because you don’t have a garden. But your balcony might be just the space you need. Things like tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce and chilli’s can all be grown in pots and offer high yields throughout the year.
#5 Think outside the box
The DIY gardening boom means the tools are now available (whether you live in the city or the country) to allow you to scratch that primitive itch: to pick up your hoe and start digging — no matter how small your patch might be. Vegetable trugs are a raised bed to allow you to grow your own, no matter how little space you have available to you.
Conclusion
As you can see, you will not need a lot of space to grow vegetables, and we hope that this article will have given you a number of ideas for space saving, so you too can start growing a few herbs, fruit and vegetables at home.