Vertical Gardening - Vertical Garden Green Wall Biowall Ecowall Living Wall Biofilter

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Vertical Gardening - Vertical Garden Green Wall Biowall Ecowall Living Wall Biofilter

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Ram Vasudev

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Vertical Gardens have seen a recent surge in popularity. A vertical garden is a wall partially or completely covered with vegetation that includes a growing medium, such as soil. Most also feature an integrated water delivery system. They are also called Green walls, living walls, biowalls, ecowalls, or biofilters. Many large vertical gardens have been constructed by Institutions, in public places such as Airports to improve the aesthetics, and in demonstration gardens as in this photo. The vertical garden concept was invented by Stanley White, who patented the idea in 1928.

Vertical vegetable gardening (on trellises) is also becoming popular and has many advantages compared to conventional (horizontal) vegetable gardening. When you grow vine vegetables vertically (upward), you use less ground space. This increases your yield per square foot because you can fit more plants into the garden. Monitoring and controlling pests is easier because they are right in front of your face. Harvesting is also easier because there is no stooping or hunching over. There is no more waste due to overripe fruits that are hidden under lush growth. Vertical gardens increase accessibility for gardeners with disabilities because they can tend and pick from a chair or garden seat. Tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, beans, gourds, melons, buttercup squash and miniature pumpkins are ideal for growing vertically.

Biowalls also act as living filters and remove toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from air, so they are also called biofilters. Due to the long durations spent inside by many humans, indoor air quality has become a growing concern. Biofiltration has thus emerged as a potential mechanism to clean indoor air of harmful VOCs, which are typically found at concentrations higher indoors than outdoors. Root-associated microbes are thought to drive the functioning of plant-based biofilters/biowalls, converting VOCs into biomass, energy, and carbon dioxide.

(Info from Wikipedia.org and organicgardening.com)

Indoor vertical gardens can also serve as wall art. Better still, buy a large print of this photo as a wall art for your home, office or business! The image is also available for rights-managed licensing at
http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/ram-vasudev.html?tab=artwork

Copyright © Ram Vasudev. All rights reserved.

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January 20th, 2014

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