My ‘Vertical Garden’ for Okra Plants Coming Up!

This is my ‘Vertical Garden’ for Okra plants! The plants are being grown in garden pots filled with potting mix and kept in two rows over two levels. You can see a red amaranth plant and a couple of Chinese potato plants as well in one of the garden pots. Actually the platforms for this vertical layout were there earlier for a different purpose. They were used for manual washing of clothes when we started off at this home about a quarter century back. Over the years it became unused as washing machine took over the job. As I have very limited space at home, I can’t waste regions where sunlight is available for free! I am not a great fan of solar panels and this my way of ‘harvesting’ solar energy, the time old ‘solar panels’ of plants which fix solar energy and reduce carbon footprint by photosynthesis.

This is how it started, the tiny Okra plants popularly known as lady’s finger at seedling stage with just two leaves which are quite different from the mature leaves in shape. Pests have already started drilling holes in the leaves of some of the seedlings. After all Earth is home for all of them as well and it is their right to eat up plants, though we can’t agree very much when they eat the plants which we cultivate. You may consider my vertical garden as part of my ‘Edible Landscaping‘, an attempt to utilise my limited home space to the maximum.