Portable upside down garden

• US 6,345,466 B1
• Filed: 03/27/2000
• Issued: 02/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank Venanzi
• Original Assignee: Frank Venanzi
• Inventors: Venanzi, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Valenti, Andrea M.
• Application Number:
  US09/535,723
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 47/39, 47/661, 47/83, 47/411.4, 47/411.2, 47/666, 47/655, 47/78, 47/82
• US Class Current: 47/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/022 Pots for vertical horticulture

Abstract

A portable gardening system comprised of an assembled center support, large base, small base and grow box with a plurality of holes in the bottom, which can be utilized as needed, for growing multiple types of vegetation upside down out of the bottom of the grow box. In addition, plants and vegetation can be grown upright, as well, out of the open top of the grow box. The unique design of the bottom of the grow box allows the upside down growth of a variety of plants and fully utilizes gardening space that in other devices is not used. Gardening system is easily assembled for use and disassembled for storage.

Claims

1. A method for growing vegetation, having a root portion and a leaf portion, in a portable upside down gardening system, comprising the steps of:

a. inserting the root portion of a first vegetation in a portable upside down gardening system having a grow box with a plurality of walls, an open top, and a bottom, said bottom having a plurality of holes such that vegetation grows simultaneously out of said plurality of holes in said bottom and out of said open top of said grow box, a base having a top and is of a sufficient size and weight for supporting said grow box, and a means for supporting said grow box in a vertical arrangement above said base, wherein the root portion of said first vegetation is inserted in one said hole in said bottom of said grow box;

b. surrounding the root system in said grow box with soil; and

c. planting a second vegetation in said open top of said grow box, such that said first vegetation and said second vegetation grow simultaneously out of said bottom and out of said open top of said grow box.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

d. filling said grow box with soil.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first vegetation is selected from the group consisting of vegetables and flowers.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said second vegetation is selected from the group consisting of vegetables and flowers.