A vertical gardening workshop at Playford Community Garden

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Last Monday, Jelina and myself headed off to the Playford Community Garden to facilitate a workshop on vertical gardening. ‘Facilitate’ is my new word for me rabbiting on about a topic for an hour or so to a receptive audience. This workshop was special too – it sold out within half an hour of being listed on Eventbrite! Wow!

The topic of this workshop was vertical gardening. I presented a little theory first, using slides that Jelina had created based on my info. As you know, I’m not much of an artist so need. J to add her magic touch to the things I write. One day, I’d love Marlon to bring his particular style of art to the mix too!

Topics covered on the day were ‘why vertical gardening?’ positioning, plant types, drainage, potting media, and adding perlite to make things lighter. I also covered ventilation and passive cooling and how you can achieve all of this in a rental home.

We had a little break then the fun began! Hands-on practical work, making of either two designs of vertical garden for everyone!




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We used reclaimed 2 litre bottles form Boost Juice Gawler and empty 3 litre cooking oil bottles from Poetic justice Cafe to make the designs and pretty soon had a little production line going doing the prep work of drilling while folks cut the bottles to suit their preferred design. Pretty soon, happy folks had a hanging garden and the skills to make new ones at home. all in all, from the enthusiasm people showed, we should be able to keep many kilograms of plastic out of the waste stream!

If you’re interested in reading about vertical gardening, we’ve made the pdf of the notes available right here..

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Manually curated by EwkaW from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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Wow, I love these, they make me want to do vertical gardening too!

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How do you manage to keep things alive in the summer heat with vertical gardening? I just seemed to cook everything and even when they were shaded I couldn't seem to keep them alive when the really hot days kick in. Their soil would be moist, but they looked like I was just steaming them instead of crisping them in the oven.

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It boils down to (pun intended!) having enough mass in the pot or container and having a reflective surface on the container. Shade helps and with the right plant choice you can self shade or shade another pot.

Twice daily watering helps too, the second watering helps cool the potting media.

I only use 2 or 3 litre containers to make my pots. I tried 1.25 litre bottes but they had the issues you mention. Now that I have a source of 3 litre bottles, I'm changing all of my smaller pots for greater mass. More potting mix or soil means the heat has to work harder to get to the centre of the pot. Adding Perlite is interesting because, even though it lowers the weight (and therefore the mass) of the mix, it is an effective insulator and doesn't heat up. That brings an idea - 2 pots with a layer of perlite in between. Or would that be just too much effort?

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