First Harvest of Organic Vegetables (Spices) from the UPB Vertical Garden
First Harvest of Organic Vegetables from the UPB Vertical Garden.
On Saturday the 29th of December 2018, we did our first harvest of vegetables (spices) from our UPB Vertical Garden to cook food for our end of year party. Some of the spices we harvested include;
Will share a post about our end of year party tomorrow.
We just wanted to let you know that growing vegetables in our UPB Vertical Gardens is a great success and you can grow your own healthy and organic vegetables while cleaning up the environment and reducing land degradation by farming in a UPB Vertical Garden that uses less space, water and resources for gardening.
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This is a very resourcefull post @chrisaiki and i think we can even try to grow them in our UPB Vertical Gardens to see how it works. We are definitely going to start our own Ventureo page this week and we will contact you if we have any questions. Thanks for sharing
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UPB means Upycled Plastic Bottle @ligayagardener. You can watch this video to learn more our UPB Vertical Garden: https://d.tube/v/thegreens/59u9gl77
Thanks... That makes sense
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