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If you are fortunate enough to have a home with a garden, you realize what an integral part the garden plays in your life. When properly maintained, it is a source of pride, enjoyment, and relaxation. It can be a haven from the hustle and bustle that is apparent just outside your front door or even just inside your back door. But what happens when you have a garden but it is small? How can you best benefit from having a small garden?

Following are five ways of maximizing your garden when it is perhaps not as large as you would like:

Go Vertical

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If you don’t have the space for a large garden, that doesn’t mean that you don’t have the height for one. There are numerous ways for you to have green before your eyes wherever you look. Vertical trellis placed against a wall is perfect as a frame for climbers. Also the colors and design of trellis available today mean that even when the climbers are in their infancy, the trellis adds a decorative element.

Box frame fence planting is another way of using your vertical spaces to best advantage to add color to your garden. However, the ultimate in vertical gardening has to be the green wall whereby your wall is converted into a garden of its own with rows and rows of plants and a dedicated watering system.

Go Spiral

An effective and efficient way of maximizing garden space is with a spiral garden as the shape is space efficient and it also adds a vertical element further optimizing space.

Herb/Vegetable Garden

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Just because you don’t have a large yard doesn’t mean that you can’t get great things out of it. A herb garden gives you ample reason to spend time in your garden as well as a sense of satisfaction that you are creating something. A herb garden provides color, aroma, and healthy flavors for your cooking. Similarly, a vegetable garden need not be big to provide to provide your family with much of its vegetable requirements.

Stackable Planters

Stackable planters are a great way to maximize your space. Planting ivy or flowers conducive to a planter environment adds color to your garden.

Storage Solutions

Plastic deck boxes and storage sheds provide a great storage solution as well as, depending on their size, doubling up as outdoor furniture. They come in a variety of colors and sizes and are weatherproof and practical.

Small-Space Gardening Solutions

Explore innovative ways to maximize your small garden space with these five creative ideas. Consider integrating Cornish Cross chickens into your garden to make the most of limited outdoor areas. With their compact size and efficient foraging abilities, Cornish Cross chickens provide natural pest control and fertilizer production, enhancing the productivity and sustainability of your small-space garden.

Do you have any garden/yard stuff on your holiday wish list? Tell me all about it!

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Simple Storage Solutions

Keeping a home tidy is a full time job. It seems as though we go through life collecting items – some useful, some not so useful, and once they have served their purpose we either could not be bothered storing them as they should be stored or eventually have insufficient space to store all that we have acquired. And apparently it doesn’t matter how big our home, there never seems to be sufficient space to meet our storage requirements. This ultimately results in us living in a cramped, disorganized, and disheveled manner, thereby reducing our quality of life. Thankfully, there are easy to implement storage solutions to help optimize our lack of space.

If you consider your current storage solutions and then take the next logical, or rather lateral, step then you will start to see a world of storage that you probably never imagined. Most storage is done on shelves and in boxes, now you just have to take it to the next level.

Shelving It

We use shelves either as part of a cupboard or shelving system for storing, but have you thought of putting free shelving in unconventional spaces such as on top of doors? Place items that are not frequently used or decorative items that don’t require frequent access on shelves that are in places that are not usually used for shelving. Even in the kitchen, a magnetic strip on the wall for storing knives and another metal strip for hanging pots and pans utilizes space that is seldom used for storage.

Go Digital

If you have a comprehensive compact disc or record (yes, I know I’m now sounding old) collection, now may be the time to put it all on an MP3, hard drive, or some other form of digital storage. Other than the space saving benefits, there are innumerable other befits of having your music stored in digital format.

Thinking Outside the Box

In this instance, thinking outside the box refers to thinking outside your home. Outdoor storage is a viable option for items that do not necessarily require the “protection” of the indoors. Even then, today’s modern storage solutions such as plastic deck boxes are hardy, weatherproof, attractive, and multi-purpose.

For larger items, plastic sheds are a great solution as they are quick to assemble, rarely require permitting from the city or council, come in a variety of sizes, are easy to maintain, and come in a range of attractive colors that suit virtually every home.

Note from Tiffany: I’m curious to hear how many of you own backyard storage sheds, and if you are glad you made that purchase? Tim and I have been mulling over the idea for more than a year now, but we just can’t seem to commit!

5 Small Space Garden Ideas