Your best “no garden” gardening ideas!

[PARunnerGirl]

Hello I have no garden (sad face) BUT it suits my life pretty well at the moment so I’m OK with it. I do have a decent amount of paved space at the front of my house where I have some seating, a wooden raised herb garden with 8 spaces and two tall planters with evergreen trees (and bedding plants around them in summer).

I always fancy growing vegetables or doing/ growing more in general ... but can I? What sort of beds/ pots/ stuff is available for this sort of set-up? Anyone have any good recommendations?

You can grow broad, runner and french beans in between your bedding plants or in pots using canes or some trellis. Also lettuce and strawberries are really easy to grow in pots.

Are you on Pinterest? We're in a similar set up. Townies after having land and space in the country. I found pinterest great for expanding my ideas.

It's taken time but I've now got multiple fruit trees (miniature patio in pots) that fruit, standard currents, hanging strawberries and hanging tomato baskets, pots of salad.

We had soil filled square section gutters along a back wall last year and masses of mini strawberries and seasonal herbs like basil. They had to come off because we were extending.

I like the idea of deep picture frames filled with succulents and vertical growing herbs.

Inside I've just got an IKEA light over a hydroponics growing module (also IKEA) and we have a very healthy watercress crop plus some just starting to fruit strawberries.

On Pinterest I've seen people use those hanging wardrobe shoe pocket things (available in pound store) and either putting small pots in or just half filling each section with soil. I guess you could also cut each pocket and pop a module through which would give a very full effect.

Check out wilko's gardening section. Fantastic stuff in there. Cool planter type things that would be easy to keep tidy.
B&M also has jolly gardening stuff.
Check out pinterest for ideas.

Thank you so much for these great ideas! Maybe I will have a “garden” this summer after all!