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The benefits of having a vertical garden in your kitchen
Tips
We can mount it on a wall, on a window ledge or even on the countertop.
If you like nature, surely you have a house full of plants. Not only that, maybe on your terrace or balcony you have a few garden-type pots. An urban garden is always a fun option to be able to dedicate time to an activity that relaxes us and to grow our own food. You are not always lucky enough to have an outdoor space to set up your own “garden”, but a world of possibilities opens up before your eyes. One of them? A vertical garden in our kitchen.
This is how the experts from the Silestone Institute tell it, a platform dedicated to researching and disseminating the kitchen space. They explain that “the kitchen in a multifunctional space
where we spend most of our time. For this reason, a perfect idea to decorate it is by placing an already mentioned urban or vertical garden, in order to “take advantage not only of natural resources when cooking, but also to decorate your kitchen and optimize its space to the maximum.”
Experts leave four keys that can be of great help if we dare to “cultivate” in our kitchen.
Find a free vertical space
The first thing to do is identify the empty space in which we will be able to set up our garden. “You can do it using and reusing countless materials. An example might be a vegetable garden with hanging glass jars, which will not only be beautiful, but will also allow you to have your essential aromatic plants for cooking on hand “, they explain from the Institute.
Have you thought of a grow table?
If you have space, a great option may be to include a cultivating table. On the one hand, it is a method of entertainment, but it also decorates and saves money. “The best thing is to install the table near a point where there is a lot of natural light, to be able to save energy and make the development process faster,” they comment.
Maybe you just need a window
If there is no space in your kitchen for a table, or that vertical garden, you can mount it in the window. You can also take advantage of countertop spaces that receive more light, and you will only occupy a tiny space in your kitchen.
The key: what to plant
Mariano Bueno, a pioneer in organic farming, explains that in a family or urban garden, given that we are faced with small dimensions, it is best to choose what to plant for crops and vegetables that occupy little space we already consume more often: onions, carrots, chard, garlic, arugula, radishes or broccoli. Also, a great option can be to plant aromatic herbs, useful for the kitchen, which take up a very small space and are easy to grow.
Benefits of a kitchen garden
Finally, the Silestone experts leave a list of advantages and benefits that we can find if we decide to have a kitchen garden.
– They help to promote self-consumption.
– Allow decrease carbon emissions.
– They increase the quality of the air, cleaning it and giving it a pleasant smell.
– They make a simple space into a corner full of decoration.
— Protect from ultraviolet rays of the sun.
– They improve our diet.
– It helps us to know how natural resources work.
– Reduce electricity costs.
– They offer the possibility of reducing external noise.
– His easy to maintain and they don’t create too much dirt.