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Six Amazing Urban Gardening ideas

With the growing population and decreasing open spaces nowadays, new gardening ideas have become an elevating requirement. Environmental change has pushed everyone to go green in an extensive manner. People are changing their surroundings into compact green spaces like vertical gardens and portable home farms.

Updated on: 31 December, 2021 10:21 AM IST By: Dimple Gupta
Vertical Home Garden

With the growing population and decreasing open spaces nowadays, new gardening ideas have become an elevating requirement. Environmental change has pushed everyone to go green in an extensive manner. People are changing their surroundings into compact green spaces like vertical gardens and portable home farms.  

The huge scale of urbanization has erased the green landscapes that we used to have in our childhood. Open lawns nowadays have become a thing of luxury. Here, urban gardening comes as a rescue, and the credit of people’s tilt towards urban farming also goes to the lockdown imposed due to COVID-19. There are various methods with which it can be easily done: 

Recycling the non-biodegradable:  

We all know plastic doesn’t decompose in the environment, but it can be recycled and used again for different purposes. For example, plastic bottles of soft drinks that are mostly dumped in the trash can be used as hanging pots on the walls and are break-proof. 

Vertical Garden: 

They are excellent one-stop solutions to many problems. They can be used as partition walls or as a privacy screen to keep away from nosy neighbors and unwanted views. Plants are easily accessible when grown vertically. Also, air quality improves you can also make a separate garden space with all those green walls. 

Mason jar planters

Hanging shoe organizer garden: 

There are so many old things that stop serving their purpose after a while, but they can always be used as an innovative tool, for example, while setting up a mini-farm of microgreens. 

Mason jar planters: 

The ideal choice in a kitchen for growing herbs and garnishes. They are a perfect example of an indoor micro-ecosystem and them styling your home the greenway. 

Succulent bowl:  

They can be put both as a centerpiece on a coffee table and also be mounted on the wall. They are very easy to grow and low on maintenance. A zero mess solution to redefine indoor space. 

Succulent bowl

Herb garden: 

If you are a cooking enthusiast then you should definitely try this method. Herbs like thyme, rosemary, basil, sage, etc, are mostly available in dried form in the market and they don’t give that taste as compared to the fresh ones. An herb garden can be set up on your balcony where it will get 6-8 hours of direct sunlight and will be easily accessible. 

There are so many innovations evolving every day around the world, but these are the most popular ones. Find your compact urban garden and GO GREEN. 

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