Wall of Salad Growing Green
Author: World Food Garden | Posted: 1/12/2010 3:42:22 PM | View Comments
I'm very excited about this garden. When I first took the job as a "short term gardener" at the 27 people live/work collective that runs the website CouchSurfing.org, I thought I was going to build a nice, fairly typical urban container garden. However upon arrival I found out that nearly half the people wanted the available small plot of dirt to become a grass lawn for socializing while the other half wanted vegetables.
Fortunately there was this giant chain-link fence in full sun that was completely underutilized so I built a vertical garden full of lettuces and my friend/roomate, Tripple T, dubbed it the "Wall of Salad." The name has stuck and now I want to put Walls of Salad everywhere!
Here's some pics
(you will notice the lawn for socializing was included in the plan via a newly sodded yard)
close up:
you can see the thin drip irrigation system making it the garden easy to maintain- just turn on the wall!
Yay! |
