Vertical flower beds for petunias with their own hands

Some flowers look better when grown vertically, and so does popular petunia . These bright flowers can decorate your garden for almost the entire summer, the main thing is to find a suitable place for them. In this article, you will learn how to make your own hands vertical flower beds for planting petunias.

Master class - how to make a vertical bed of petunias

This method can be used for landscaping a veranda or other place where there is no soil.

It will take:

• wooden pallet;
• seedling flowers;
• fertile land.

Progress:

1. We take the ready pallet. If we do not have it, then it is very easy to make it by cutting boards of the same size, and then nailing them from two sides to thick beams. To the land does not get enough sleep, it is necessary that the boards from different sides relative to each other are staggered.
2. Put our pallet horizontally. Now take the ground and fill it with the inside. Simultaneously, we plant the prepared seedlings of flowers. At the top is better to arrange erect plants, and in all other slots - petunia, begonias and other falling.
3. After all the flowers are planted, they must be well watered. The pallet in horizontal position should be kept about a week. This time is enough for them to take root, then neither plants nor soil will fall out. After that our flower bed can be placed almost vertically to the wall.
4. If you want, before filling the pallet with earth, you can paint it.

Vertical landscaping by planting petunias looks very nice, when using such a metal structure.

You can do it yourself, and you will now learn how.

Master class - how to plant a petunia vertically

It will take:

1. concrete cylinder;
2. clay pot;
3. fertile soil;
4. petunia seedlings (up to 10 cm high);
5. grid;
6. tools: side cutters, nippers, scissors, knife;
7. black solid material;
8. black nylon clamps.

Progress:

1. We wrap the net around the bucket and note what diameter you want to get the pipe. Having made a lap in 1-2 cages, we cut off the necessary part to us, having a bite of a wire.
2. We form a cylinder from the grid. We fasten the edges with yokes and cut off the long end.
3. We put the workpiece in a concrete cylinder.
4. Do not make the tower too high, otherwise it will be turned by the wind. Optimal is the height of the used cylinder.
5. We measure the necessary amount of black cloth.
6. To ensure that the upper edge is neat, insert the material inside the grid, cut off the excess, leaving the top 7 cm to bend the fabric on the front side.
7. We make just below the edge of the wire 6 holes and insert the clamps into them. We tighten them and cut off the excess.
8. The resulting blank is placed in a vase, previously covered with polyethylene, and covered with earth.
9. When the column is half filled, the soil will need to be watered. When completely - tamper. The earth must be poured into the vase itself.
10. Our vertical bed for petunias is ready, you can start planting plants.
11. In a checkerboard pattern on the cells with a knife we ​​make the cross holes.
12. We first make a void in these places, and then gently pry into the seedlings.
13. If a bump is formed from above, it must be compacted.
14. After it was planted on all sides and on top of the petunia, it should be regularly watered, fertilized and waiting for flowering.