Small Space Garden: How To Grow In A Small Space Garden

Having a small space never prevented our ancestors from growing their own food and it definitely shouldn’t stop you. The main goal should be – maximizing your space and harvest. With the right tools, methods, and food – you’ll be cultivating the small space garden of your dreams!

Compact Varieties

For every flower or vegetable you could possibly think of growing, there is a compact variety that exist as well. For example, if you love romaine lettuce – you can grow tom thumb lettuce. If you love tomatoes, you can grow tiny tom tomatoes. To maximize the space you have, compact varieties are going to be your friends simply because not only does it saves space, they typically produce high yields of fruit.

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Vertical Garden

Maximizing your space will require that you get creative. Vertical gardening can be essential in growing in a small space garden because you can basically get 2-3x the use out of a space. Vertical gardening can look like stacked planters, hanging planters, or upcycling pallets. Don’t limit yourself either – try using wall planters or shoe bags to take advantage of wall space you typically wouldn’t use.

Interplanting (intercropping)

This is the method of planting smaller and faster growing crops between slower growing crops. The idea is that the smaller crop will mature and be harvested before the slower growing crop need the space that it is occupying. This method allows for you to use your space efficiently and benefit from continuous harvests. Ideal crops are most vegetables that take anywhere from 30-60 days to mature and are small. Radish, beets, turnips, peas, bush beans, and lettuce are good candidates. Not to be confused with companion planting which is planting certain plants together to benefits from their characteristics. Interplanting is the same action, but for a different purpose.

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A small space garden is not a bad thing whatsoever, it’s an opportunity to get creative as you like. Explore the diversity of compact varieties, vertical gardening, and intercropping! Here’s to prioritizing maximizing the use of your space and harvest.