Showing posts with label verticals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verticals. Show all posts

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Wall Me In

I am in love with vertical gardening!
It is possible to grow 10x more plants in the same space that I had 1 planted before.
This is my second year using the square foot gardening method of vertical gardening.
Last year I used zip ties to connect the plastic netting to the metal conduit arches, but this year I stole an idea from my Dad.
I wrapped twine in between the netting holes and around the metal conduit.
It makes the netting taunt, but flexible.


In the back green pole beans - In the front cucumbers
Above: Close up of Tomato wall #2
Below: Tomato wall #2

P.S. The tomato walls are 8 1/2 feet tall!


My First Ripe Tomato!!!
There were 2, but I ate one.......and then I ate the other one too!




Cucumber wall close up.




Green bean wall from the side.
Eggplants and peppers in the front.




Tomato wall #1




Overall garden view: Empty beds - harvested garlic and a finally crop of peas, then I took the vines out.
Guess which Ladies like pea vines?
All of them!


Overall garden view: Grow summer squash! That's Butter Stick summer squash. Very good - makes yummy squash pickles.


Overall garden view.
If you want to see more pics of my garden and directions to make the metal conduit arches
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