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How to Make a Hanging Cloth Vertical Vegetable Garden

If you're frustrated with four-legged moochers eating your herbs and vegetables before you can, change the environment so rabbits and other snackers can't reach the food. Instead of planting herbs and small vegetables in a garden patch, create a hanging vertical wall of plants. The plants will be easy to care for, will have many fewer weeds, and will stay out of garden raiders' reach.

Things You'll Need

  • Canvas hanging shoe holder
  • Potting soil
  • S-hooks
  • Seedlings
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Instructions

    • 1

      Put one end of each S-hook into the holes at the top of the shoe bag. Hang the other end of each hook from a tree branch or on the top of a fence where the shoe bag will be exposed to sunlight at least 6 hours of the day.

    • 2

      Fill each pouch with potting soil, stopping when the level of the soil is 1 inch below the top of the pouch.

    • 3

      Plant one seedling in each pouch. Use smaller herbs like mint, lavender or chives, or miniature versions of vegetables such as Tiny Tom tomatoes or Bushmaster cucumber.

    • 4

      Water each pouch thoroughly. Check the soil at least once a day, as it will dry out more quickly than soil in the ground. Water the pouches whenever the soil feels dry by turning the hose on the entire wall of plants and pockets.