Experimenting A Multi-storey Garden Setup to Increase my Vegie Production.

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So, I have been doing a little reading on vertical stack farming, Sack Farming, Soilless farming etc, and have been finding a good way to try out these new method of farming.

I had to thing of different methods of farming causes I know I have a problem of space in my garden and I really want to plant different variety of vegetables with the available space I have. Then I stumbled on the multi-storey gardening that could help me conserve space.

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Multi-storey gardening is a farming technology that aims at producing more vegetables and fruits, so as to meet the rising food need, while utilizing spaces such as home backyards. The most suitable plants to grow in this system are kales, spinach, capsicum, eggplants, coriander and amaranths, strawberries just to mention a few.

One multi-storey garden has six layers, although some can go up to eight layers. Each terrace layer is filled with soil that is mixed with the less acidic manure with a 1:1 ratio. The top ring of the storey garden contains the top soil. The materials used in constructing the structure have a lifespan of up to 10 years, since they are ultra-heated prior to installation.

Each structure, occupies a one metre squared space. It then accommodates up-to 120 plants, depending on the type of fruit or vegetable planted. This proves to be more economical, when compared to the 10 plants that would be planted on the same space in the conventional way. The question is, will you grow only one type of vegetable per garden, or will you mix it up?

In addition to maximizing the available space, layering helps in minimizing evaporation, thus conserving irrigation water. The farmer will then need to water the crops for at most three days a week. Depending on the weather, one such structure will need a maximum of 20 litres of the irrigation water.

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I had tried using different material to accomplish this but didn't work out well. First I tried using a black nylon but it didn't last 2 month it disintegrated, then I tried using wood 3month in termites felt with the wood and everything went down again.

Then I thought of using different sizes of damaged car tyres, but cutting out the top and the bottom, I couldn't accomplish this cause I couldn't cut through the bigger tires cause of the little metals in them.

Then I thought of using a plain corrugated roofing Sheet,.

I had to shred them into pieces and join them with screws to hold them together.
After that I started filling the soil in each layer..

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