What Grows Well In A Tower Garden?

Don’t let your living space stop you from creating a garden with a large variety and a high number of flowers, fruits, herbs, and veggies. The best solution for you is a tower garden, which can grow over 100 various wellness-promoting plants.

Now, let’s learn more about what grows well in a tower garden.

Flowers

While flowers are divided into two main groups – decorative and edible, they’re all generously and effortlessly grown using tower garden technology.

Growing flowers in the tower garden mean it will become a “bee magnet”, so it’s more suitable for outdoor spaces, such as balconies, lobbies, or atriums.

Ornamental

The list is endless! Zinnia, yarrow, verbena, sweet peas, and so on. But for beginners, here are some easy-to-grow ornamental flowers in a tower garden:

Hibiscus

This plant requires a warm place in full sun (8 to 10 hours of sunlight per day). The soil must be well-drained yet still remains moist during summer. About the environment, keep them away from cold and strong winds.

Forget-Me-Not

This is an easy-to-grow flower as long as it is grown in organically enriched soil, partial shade, and regular-to-ample water.

Regularly grown as an annual. Most gardeners love growing them from seeds (which takes around ten weeks for seedling indoors before the last frost for bloom the same year).

Then, sow them in fall or milder climates.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus love growing in well-drained soil and full sunlight.

This plant loves moist and warm conditions. During summer, please frequently mist them to keep the soil moist evenly. During the winter, move them indoors.

Edible

Violas

It is easy to start from seed. While it’s quite happy to self-seed outdoors where there is semi-shade and moist humus-rich soil if you intend to grow them indoors, start seeding about nine to twelve weeks before transplanting.

Sunflowers

Grow it if you’re a fan of this beautiful flower. The good news for beginner gardeners is sunflowers are easy to grow because they’re fast-growing, pest-resistant, and heat tolerant.

They can adapt to conditions in most places because they are native to North America.

Salvia

This edible flower loves being grown in full sun and well-drained soil. To insure against winter losses, take summer cuttings and to prolong flowering, cut back spent blooms.

Mulch perennial salvias annually in mid regions with compost or well-rotted manure.

Regardless, here are some other edible flowers that grow well in a tower garden:

• Scarlet runner bean

• Pansies

• Nasturtiums

• Monarda

• Marigolds

• Hyacinth bean

• Dianthus

• Carthamus

• Calendula

Herbs

Thyme

Thyme is easy to grow and low-maintenance, except for frequent light pruning after the first year. To ensure the plant doesn’t get brittle and woody, do this after the last spring frost.

It takes around 14 to 28 days for thyme to grow from seed through germination. It’s best to start seeding indoors at a temperature of 70 degrees F.

The ideal environment for growing thyme is full sunlight, pH ranges of 6.0 to 8.0, and well-drained soil. In the early spring, fertilize them with compost or other organic matter.

Rosemary

This plant is easy to grow and care for. Just ensure to provide them with filtered sunlight or indirect light until roots become established. After that, move them to direct light for 6 to 10 hours per day.

Take note that they’re an evergreen shrub in zone 8, meaning that they can reach up to 3’ tall and wide.

Make sure the soil is reasonably moist until there’s new growth. Before harvesting, let the new plants put on some growth.

Parsley

This is biennial and should be treated as an annual. Therefore, you should sow fresh seeds every year.

Parsley grows best in sun to partial shade, in moist, well-drained, and rich soil, nearly 8” apart. In a weed-free environment, it can sprout after three weeks. If you want to get a successive harvest, sow seed every few weeks.

Some other herbs that grow well in tower gardens are:

• Mint, all varieties

• Passionflower

• Mexican mint marigold

• Lemongrass

• Lemon balm

• Cilantro (coriander)

Fruits And Vegetables

Tomatoes, all types

The best times to grow tomatoes are late spring and early summer in zone 10 because they run on warmth.

According to Scott Daigre, a tomato expert, it’s best to give your tomato plants 6-8 hours of sunlight daily. Take note that they are heavy feeders and require fertilizing frequently unless the soil is very rich.

The fertilizer should have a great ratio of three main elements, like 5-5-5 or the nitrogen is smaller than phosphorus, such as 3-4-2.

Strawberries

This fruit should be planted in early spring or autumn, meaning that you can buy runners from late summer to early spring. Avoid planting them during the winter because, at this time, the ground is the common cold and wet.

In an ideal environment, strawberries can fruit 60 days after planting.

Broccoli

The best way to grow broccoli is from seedlings. Start in early fall, or mid to late or summer for a fall or winter crop.

Except in periods of rain, water the soil every two days for broccoli to grow sweet and strong.

Some other fruits and veggies that grow well in a tower garden:

• Gourds, edible and ornamental

• Eggplant, European and Asian

• Cabbage and Chinese cabbage

• Beans: lima, bush, pole, shell, fava, green

• Amaranth (vegetable type)

Conclusion

Above is our top pick of plants that grow well in a tower garden. Before choosing anything to start growing, kindly consider your living area, needs, preference, and the ideal environments that each plant requires. Thanks for reading!