Showing posts with label walls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walls. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

The Garden That Was - Summer's End 2010

Above is a pic of a salad I made using Zavory peppers from my garden. They are my favorite pepper. They have the flavor of a habenero, without the heat. They are yummy! Usually they don't make it into the house before I eat them.

The following pics were taken Sept. 7th 2010.
The garden doesn't look anything like this right now.
First of all, the flower beds are gone and in their place I have a huge swath of black mud.
Yay for rain, not.
Second of all, most of the garden was hit with frost a couple days ago, so everything is wilted over and dead.

2010's tomato walls were bigger than ever.
However, next year I will plant fewer plants.
I promise.



Flower beds and Catty and Tibby.


More of the garden.
Next year, I will be taking out the bed with the blue chicken in it.

I think I might move the arch.
Once the morning glory started to grow on it, I couldn't see my pond from the house.


Flower beds. All gone. Goodbye flower beds.


Closer view of the tomato walls.




Back view of the tomato walls.



Middle of the garden. Tomato walls.





It's a jungle!

Side view.
Tibby in the jungle.

Chinese 5 color pepper.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

How to: Build A Tomato Wall

How to build a Tomato Wall:
2 x 3/4" 10' EMT conduit
2 x 3/4" conduit connectors
zip ties
twine
plastic netting
Cut one 10' EMT conduit in half. These 2 halves make your 5' legs.
Bend 2nd 10' EMT conduit with a pipe bender. The top will be 3' long and each leg will be 3.5 ' long.
Pound your T-stakes into the ground.
Using the 3/4" connectors attach the 5' legs to the 3.5' legs. You now have a 8.5' tall trellis.
Use the zip ties to attach the trellis to the T-stakes.
Use the twine to attach the plastic netting to the trellis.
Done!
Now weave your tomatoes into the plastic netting. As they grow, continue to weave them in and out of the netting.

Zip ties, twine and plastic netting attached to trellis and T-stake.

3/4" connector.


Completed tomato walls.

I buy my plastic netting here - American Nettings
Full grown tomato walls can be seen here - Tomato Walls and Me