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How to Make a Tier Tower Garden for Small Spaces
How to Make a Tier Tower Garden for Small Spaces. Creating a tier tower garden can add charm to small spaces. Tier gardening is a great way to Introduce children to begin a small garden for themselves without all the work. It can function as a herb garden or low maintenance garden for gardeners who have little time to spent gardening. A tier...
Creating a tier tower garden can add charm to small spaces. Tier gardening is a great way to Introduce children to begin a small garden for themselves without all the work. It can function as a herb garden or low maintenance garden for gardeners who have little time to spent gardening. A tier tower garden can be used for a host of different type of plants or garden flowers for door step decorations or patios.
Things You'll Need
3 terra-cotta bowls
3 glazed pots
1 metal rod
3 wing nuts
3 ribbon bolts
3 bolt washer
Pliers
Plants
Soil
Rock for Drainage
Pencil/Paper
Put pencil to paper and make a rough draft of where you would like to place your tier tower garden. It is best to construct the tower close to where you going to place the tier garden. It will be difficult to move after the rocks, soil, and plants are placed in terra-cotta bowls. Here how to begin building your tiers.
Use a inverted glazed pot 16"inches in size, with a wide opening for the base bottom. Place the metal rod through the drainage hole. Turn the inverted glazed pot upside down for the base. Add the wing nut, waster, and bolt in this order tighten. Place terra cotta standard bowls size to start the next tier. Add a wing nut, waster, and bolt in this order and tighten. The Inverted glazed pot need to fit inside the wider mouth terra cotta bowls to allow for the plants and soil. The bottom of each inverted glazed bottom will serve as the base for the next terra-cotta base. The third tier consists of the last terra cotta bowls repeat instructions from above. The additional of soil and small rocks will add to the stability of the planter.
Plants that fair well are, viola, pansy, golden feverfew, zinnia. Create an edible garden with herbs, strawberries, lettuces, spinach. Plant taller plants on the third tier, such as peppers, onions, beets, artichoke sparely, avoids plants that need a lot of elbow room.
Tips & Warnings
Purchase the metal rod from your local hardware or gardening center. Stack the pots together in order to get the right size needed.
