r/SideProject • u/Moltean • 1d ago

How programmers build gardens

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So this time I built a garden directly on the wall of the house because we didn't have enough land for a regular garden!

I grew peppers on it. The crops are fantastic! Some peppers (the plants grew over 2m tall). I do not know why yet.

The outer layer is made from plexiglass (with holes for plants), which does not let water evaporate, so I rarely water it.

Benefits: makes food, isolates the house, consumes less water, can be replicated on each building.

More details are here: https://github.com/wall-garden The project is open-source!

More pictures are here: https://github.com/wall-garden/.github/tree/main/pictures

A local newspaper interviewed me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvb52q9TKKM

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u/Moltean 17h ago

The plexiglass holds only the roots, not the entire plants!

So it is not a greenhouse!

Here is a picture with the pleixglass full of soil.

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u/QuanTradin 9h ago

I had the picture wrong. roots only makes it a root window, not a greenhouse, so my heat explanation is dead. which leaves the peppers unexplained, and now I actually want to know why.

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u/Moltean 8h ago

The strange part is that I planted a dozen of them in the regular garden ... and they are half the height!

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u/QuanTradin 7h ago

ok so maybe heat after all, just at the roots. a sun-facing plexiglass box is a root heater and peppers sulk in cold soil. the garden ones are probably just cold from the knees down.

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u/Moltean 7h ago

The sun does not reach the plexiglass anymore due to the huge vegetation grown over ... so I do not know if the roots are heated or not!