Gardening tips for renters
If you’re renting (or moving), it doesn’t mean you have to miss out on a beautiful garden. With a little bit of planning and ingenuity you can enjoy a garden that you won’t have to leave behind when you move. Here’s how.
1. Embrace container gardening
Pots and planters are a renter’s best friend. You can garden to your heart’s content without altering the existing garden. Here’s our guide to setting up your own potted vegetable garden.
2. Go vertical
Cover backyard fences with vertical gardens, which are great for planting herbs and small plants. You can purchase a kit from your local nursery or get a free-standing trellis. The best part is that if you move, you can take your vertical garden with you.
3. Fake it
Astro-turf is no longer considered tacky in gardens and in fact, can make quite an impact in an outdoor area. Use it cover unsightly outdoor floors or to add some “lawn” into the backyard. Artificial turf can also been repurposed and reused in future homes.
4. Pave your way
Pavers aren’t permanent and are an easy way to cover patches of dirt you’d rather not see.
5. Hang it up
Hanging baskets spilling with flowers are a beautiful way to add non-permanent plants to your garden. If you’re stuck for ideas, check out this article for some inspiration.
6. Raised beds
Not only a great idea for those who find tending to plants too strenuous on the body, raised garden beds are perfect for renters too. As you can’t bring any plants that are planted into the ground (even if you bought and raised it) adding a raised garden bed into your backyard means you can keep your plants when you move.
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