re: Garden Updates

Yep give me a sec to find a pic

This works well. My girls love to go out to the “bean wall” and help pick. My oldest started a few cucumber vines up the trellis as well. Produced well and the picking was a breeze.

Great idea especially for people who are limited on space. Lots of information on vertical gardens available online.

Anyone start any fall crops yet? I built my trellis and about to transplant my cucumbers and pepper plants. I also have some heirlooms under grow lights I’m going to try and grow this fall, but don’t have any expectations with this heat. Garlic sets in October.

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I’ve seen some pics of a trellis I’m going to try in my garden. Basically take 2X4’s and make a rectangle shape that runs 6’ tall. Then take stakes at the ends to keep it stable. Then every half foot place a nail on the bottom board and top board. Then run nylon line vertically. Put your plants down next to the nylon lines and as they grow wrap them around each line and they grow up the line vertically. Real clean and efficient looking

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I use hog wire on all my trellises. The openings are 2 x 3 inches and they last for years. My oldest trellis has been in my garden since before Katrina in 05 and I just pulled it down to replace the posts that finally gave up the ghost. I'm going with 4 x 4's this time for the upright posts with 2 x 4's spanning the top, middle and bottom to which I'll staple the hog wire back in place.


Nylon twine will need to be replaced probably every years or so due to being wet, dry, beaten by the heat, etc.

ETA: I've been gardening vegetables probably longer than many of you folk have been alive and one of my early trellis ideas was to hit the river batture and cut down 30 or so willow branches about 2 inches round and tapered to the top. Bring them home and set several in the ground to make like a Tepee framework and tie them off at the top. Plant your bean seeds or cucumber seeds and sit back and watch them climb the willow branches. It give your garden that old-time look and they will usually last a couple seasons before needing replacement. Can't beat the price as the willow branches are free for the cutting.

I planted 1/2 of my broccoli and cauliflower seeds this past week. My spring tomatoes were slow to start producing this year and as a result still have quite a few ripening on the vine at the moment. I don't have a very large garden

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Anyone start any fall crops yet?

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since we finally started getting some rain I went ahead and planted mine. Put out lettuce, kale, spinach and rutabaga seed, and some broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage plants

Are you letting Mother Nature work or pollinating them yourself?

I started some Sweet Success cucumbers from seed. Planted them out in the middle of August and I had ripe cucumbers on the vine within a couple of weeks. It was crazy. They came down with some nasty fungus that I posted in the other thread, but I gave them two doses of a hydrogen peroxide spray and it seems (fingers crossed) to have worked. A lot of the infected leaves look like crap, and I pruned almost half of them off, but I'm hopeful the plants will recover and keep producing.

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I planted several varieties of heat tolerant tomatoes last week to replace my Cherokee Purples. They produced well through mid July but nothing after that. I've never tried this before so it will be an interesting experiment.

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This experiment has gone really well, the plants have grown quickly and there are a ton of small tomatoes now. And some Cherokee Purple volunteers came up so I transplanted them, they are a few weeks behind the heat tolerant varieties.