Urban Gardening & Farming

Urban Farming & Gardening Tools & Equipment

Growing crops and plants in urban spaces is easy with the right equipment and careful planning. We sell a huge range of items to ensure your garden or farm flourishes. Our range includes:

Gardening tools: A wide selection of tools from watering cans and pruners, to gardening wire, and more.

Containers and plant pots: Whether you are looking for hassle-free a self-watering planter or a standard fabric or plastic pot, we stock an extensive selection of plant pots to suit any garden.

Aquaponics equipment: Fuse your love of horticulture with your passion for fishkeeping with an aquaponic set up. Find all the kit you need to get started.

Worm composters: Turn your food waste into a nutrient rich plant fertiliser with our innovative worm farms.

Seeds: We stock a range of quality seeds for urban farmers and gardeners. With everything from herbs and vegetables to colourful flowers and cactuses, explore the range to diversify your garden.

Soils and substrates: Give your plants the best start in life with our houseplant soils and substrates. Our range includes top brands such as Biobizz All Mix Potting Soil, Substra Coco Bricks, and Plant!T Clay Pebbles.

Plant nutrients: Give your plants the nutrients they need with our top quality houseplant feeds and plant nutrients. With leading brands like BioBizz, Ecothrive, and Growth Technology, your plants will thrive and bloom excellent harvests.

Lighting: The right lighting is essential for healthy plants. If your indoor plants or microgreens need an extra boost of light, explore our plant lighting solutions.

Raised bed irrigation systems: Accelerate plant growth and never worry about plant dehydration with our convenient irrigation systems.

Become Self Sufficient with Urban Farming

Urban farming is one of the best ways to become self-sufficient, establish food security, and reduce your carbon footprint. A broad term, it encompasses cultivating your own produce, community gardening projects, urban agriculture, and locally grown fresh foods cultivated in urban areas such as towns and cities. 

The best thing about urban agriculture is that you don’t necessarily need a lot of space to do it, unlike traditional agriculture. You can grow your own produce inside or outside, whether on a rooftop, allotment, veg patch in the garden, greenhouse or even indoors. If you have very little space, small scale indoor greenhouses or hydro systems allow you to farm microgreens with ease.

There are many methods you can utilise to grow vegetables, herbs, and fruit. Use containers, vertical farming structures, hydroponic methods, or raised beds, depending on your situation and available space.

With urban farming, you can grow virtually any produce you like. For outdoor farms, you’ll need to stick to fruit and vegetables that can withstand the UK climate. For indoor growing, you have endless possibilities. With the right equipment and lighting, you can cultivate healthy food that would normally be grown in warmer climates.

Urban Gardening Ideas

Gardening as a hobby can be incredibly rewarding. It can enhance wellbeing, and help you reconnect with nature. Urban gardens can thrive inside or outside, and the type of garden you grow will depend on the available space. 

Outside residential areas in cities and towns are often paved but this needn’t be an issue. It’s easy to turn these spaces into tranquil havens and grow a variety of plants with a little creativity.

Whether you are lucky enough to have a garden, roof top, allotment, balcony, or patio, or you don’t have any outside space at all, there are plenty of ideas to get back to nature. For those without access to an outdoor area, you can bring the outside in with container gardening, vertical gardens, living walls, indoor greenhouses, and more.

Balcony gardens

A balcony garden offers a range of possibilities depending on the available space. Since they are soilless areas, you will need to use containers or plant pots and choose plant species that will thrive on the available light. If you have a shaded spot, just ensure to select plants that will cope without direct sunlight such as shade loving evergreens, perennials, annuals and biennials.

Ensure to choose containers that provide good drainage and water regularly. Balcony plants can dry out quicker as they are more exposed to the elements. A watering can will do the job or invest in a self-watering irrigation system for hassle free gardening.

Rooftop gardens

With the relevant planning consents (if applicable), rooftops can be transformed into lush green spaces. Containers or raised beds provide the perfect solution for growing plants on the roof. Be sure to check the weight bearing load of the roof structure before you start creating your garden. 

Rooftops are exposed but you can add structures to provide extra shelter, shade, and aesthetic appeal by incorporating trellises, screens, or hurdle fencing.

Container gardens

Container gardens are highly versatile as you can place them virtually anywhere inside or outside. Suitable for patios, windows, balconies, conservatories, courtyards or your living room, this flexible gardening technique allows you to get creative with different plant species, fruit trees, shrubs, herbs, and even vegetables. Just ensure each plant is bedded in the correct substrate, has adequate sunlight and drainage, and is fed with the nutrients and water it needs to thrive.

Hydroponic Gardening & Farming

Hydroponic gardening is a soilless horticultural technique where plants are grown in a nutrient rich solution instead of soil. Plants and seedlings can either be planted into containers with soilless substrates such as coco coir, clay pebbles or rockwool, or they can be suspended above the nutrient solution. There are many different hydroponic growing methods such as nutrient film technique, drip systems, flood and drain, aquaponics, and aeroponics. We explain these in more detail in our beginner’s guide to hydroponic systems.

The beauty of growing plants in hydronic systems is the versatility it offers. Plants can be grown on benches, in a cupboard, room or greenhouse. It is also possible to create bespoke vertical hydroponic gardens or towers using mounted channels or piping attached to walls, fences, or any other solid structure. This maximises available space by utilising vertical surfaces – ideal for urban environments where space can be limited. 

Depending on the plant species, if you are growing indoors you may need to consider investing in quality plant lighting to ensure your plants get the right lighting conditions to achieve healthy plants and bigger yields.

Buy Urban Farming & Gardening Equipment Online

For all the best urban farming and gardening equipment, explore our range to get your garden growing. If you need a hand selecting the right equipment, we are always happy to help, just get in touch or send us an email for expert advice. Explore the range with London Grow.