I’ve heard of Square-foot Gardening, but IKEA now has something new in mind: spherical gardening.
Read more at the link, but the idea is that the design ensures that all levels get air and light, and you can access it from both inside and out. Heck, it might even make a nice little reading nook or a meditation chamber. It certainly looks like the Yoda version of Darth Vader’s meditation chamber:
I like the idea but, seeing as it’s made out of wood, how long before weather and water make it unstable? We’ll have to check back in a few years and see how well it works.
The plans are available online. If anyone out there has built and used one of these, please drop me a line and let me know how it works!
Ah. I read through the plans and they don’t necessarily recommend putting dirt directly into the boxes.
“To gain a better control of the soil and water, you can advantageously put plastic
in each space, so that it covers the whole area before you put soil and vegetation
in them.”
I don’t think I would want to try it without, other than it ‘ruins’ the aesthetic value. I think their boxes for dirt are far to shallow for the root systems. If you built that outside here, they would torch out by June – if you have a very cool May.
Agreed. It’s a nice idea, but it’s hard to tell how viable it really is. Especially when they placed it inside a building….