Container Vegetable Gardening on a Balcony or Patio
No yard? No problem. Container vegetable gardening on a patio or balcony can actually outperform in-ground beds for the right crops. Here’s how to set it up cheap and keep things alive all season.
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Vertical Gardening: Big Yields in a Tiny Space
If your raised beds are packed and you’re out of ground space, look up. Vertical gardening lets you squeeze serious production out of a tiny footprint, and most of the best trellis setups cost almost nothing to build.
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Trellis Your Cucumbers for Almost Nothing
I let my cucumbers sprawl on the ground for two years and ended up with hidden yellow softballs and slug damage on a third of them. A simple DIY trellis made from stakes and twine fixed all of that for under four dollars and freed up six square feet of bed space.
