Meet the Garden Tower – an amazing vertical gardening system that composts your kitchen scraps into into organic fertilizer for your veggies!

It’s finally here – the simplest, easiest and most brilliant way to turn your kitchen scraps into an array of gorgeous and delicious veggies, all in one humble barrel. The Garden Tower Project is a revolutionary new way to grow vegetables in an urban setting or small space, allowing anyone to enjoy the benefits of fresh and organic produce. As the only garden planter in existence that generates its own fertilizer and self-conditioned soil, the Garden Tower is a completely unique gardening solution that can provide healthy food for all.

This combined vertical garden bed and composting bin is the ideal solution for small spaces, school yards, and gardeners with little time to spend tending a large vegetable lot. The Garden Tower allows you to grow 50 different plant starts in just 4 square feet, and only takes up a small round area in your yard or patio. Plants grown in the Tower are subjected to their own protected micro-climate, meaning that they receive an abundance of nutrient rich water that allows them to grow much faster than conventional gardening methods would allow. It also cuts down on water loss as all the moisture put into the Tower is recycled over and over. Once seedlings are established, the Tower only requires bi-weekly watering from the top.

The Garden Tower is made from food-grade, 100 percent recyclable plastic and is available in either white or terra-cotta colors. A long tube runs down the center of the tower as a vermicomposting system, which means that a half cup of worms introduced at the beginning of the season work to turn your inserted kitchen scraps into amazingly rich compost for your plants. This black soil is obtained from the bottom of the tube with an included and easy to use compost plug. An integrated drawer also collects any runoff water, also called compost tea, as it seeps through the compost tube and thus absorbs nutrients from scraps and worm castings. This compost tea can be re-administered to the plants in the tower, creating a closed loop cycle for organically fertilizing your crops.

The Garden Tower is an extremely efficient and low cost way to easily grow healthy, local and organic vegetables. While this vertical gardening system is a prime choice for urban apartments, small yards and those with less ability to move around easily in a large vegetable patch, it is also a great option for school gardens, office terraces and even restaurants. Check it out online today to invest this unique and attractive gardening solution!

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The Vertical Garden Kit is your own personally-designed green installation. Trimming optional.

We’re all fans of vertical gardens, but as living art, mounted on a wall inside your house? This green square allows you to create your own piece of live contemporary interior styling. It’s very calming, having shaggy, wall-mounted foliage to gaze at in lieu of a TV. And clipping those stems to keep them neat can be satisfying, too.

The set up is clever: a panel fixed to the wall with screws holding small, removable pots; these are kept moist via a built-in irrigation system whose tank will keep the plants watered for six weeks. The panel is water-tight, preventing moisture from reaching the wall. Just add the leafy stuff of your choice and watch the tendrils descend.

The Vertical Garden Kit contains one 42cm x 40cm wall panel, 16 removable pots, 2 screws and 2 wall-plus (frame shown not included) and costs £49.95 ($78.85). You can also get larger plant pots, for a more dramatic display.

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This house in Belgium features a vertical garden and a logistical mowing challenge.

How often do you paint your house or agonize over what color to make it so that the neighbors don’t hate you? If you lived in this vegetation-rich dwelling, you would be freed of that intense decision-making. An added bonus? It’s green all over.

The “vertical garden” helps keep the six-bedroom family house (it’s the home and studio of a cinematographer) cool in summer, while acting as insulation in colder weather. It also provides privacy from the neighbors on three sides; the fourth wall, overlooking the (horizontal) garden, is glass. A simple white curtain provides shade during hot months.

Low-maintenance lush gardens are maintained with rain and a built-in irrigation system. We love the way it blends into the garden, almost as if it’s not really there at all.

This private home took eight years to construct. The original plans called for ivy, but as the idea of a green façade grew, the ivy was ditched for a selection of exotic plants by botanist Patrick Blanc. Architecture firm Samyn and Partners in Belgium created the design and project and refer to it as an “envelope.”

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