The Normal Garden:
Your typical garden is flat, relatively big, and a lot of work. Many people enjoy it, as it provides a good reason to be outdoors in the fresh air and rejuvenate oneself. But the physical strain along with the monetary requirements of time, machinery, tools, and fertilizer as well as the pestering forces of weeds and ground bugs can frustrate what otherwise might be a more rewarding effort.
The gardener faces hurtles in his or her quest to produce beautiful flowers and edible food from bare ground. But an enclosed garden might give you more of the benefits and less of the difficulties such as overworking your knees, back, and hands.
Patio Gardens and Their Benefits:
Whereas typical gardens involve a lot of costly investment, patio garden systems have a host of features and benefits that are downright amazing. We’ve all been using flower pots for generations. While they create some of their own problems, their benefits usually outweigh the costs by a wide margin.
The normal garden is horizontal, or flat. It is spacious, open, and exposed to the ground where parasites and weeds can thrive. But with a patio garden, plants are separated from the rest of the big bad world and require far less maintenance. Plants can drink and grow together without competitors, thus increasing yield.
Furthermore, a patio garden can sit on a porch, shelf, or patio–as long as it receives ample sunlight. They end up closer to where you live. Gardeners spend a lot of time traveling in their horizontal gardens, covering a lot of ground and doing so on daily, weekly, or biweekly basis. Why not bring your garden closer to you rather than constantly walking out to it?
Most patio garden designs basically function like a flowerpot but with a much higher yield. Patio gardens oftentimes hold many species of plants in the same space (as opposed to only one or two plants in the typical flowerpot). The traditional gardener will sigh in relief when their patio garden begins to bloom and their neighbor is still in the sun weeding for the sixth time this month!
The return on investment from a normal garden is not half as much as that of the patio garden.