Vertical Gardening

Growing up instead of out

Hi – Brenda Tripp here in proficient ole southern Illinois ! It ’s a bit cold today and not one of my favored times to be outside , so I thought I would sit around in the warmth of my information processing system elbow room and garden via computing machine with you .

This snow - covered scene is in a department of my veg garden that I call my Vertical Garden . I ’m retired , so you’re able to guess my age , and I build this area of trellis for the garden after I retire .

It was a hassle , as there are twelve cattle panels that I folded over and squeeze in between four steel fencing position . I brook on a 5 - Imperial gallon bucket to hammer the brand posts into the ground .

I did this in about six Day , seven yr ago . I paced myself by doing two or three of the arch each twenty-four hours .

The Vertical Garden is a wonderful place to pay heed out .

It has been a great area to grow gourd vine and also a wonderful place for pole bean ( all kind ) , blackberries , and clematis , and now I ’m trying to get Chinese gooseberry to grow and create — though I am own worry getting both the male and female plants to maturate .

A harvest of gourds from the Vertical Garden .

Tromboncino mash growing in the Vertical Garden . This strange squash can be harvesting green and eat on like a summer squash , or you’re able to let it mature and delight it like a white walnut squash .

husband and I live in the land , and sometimes it ferment well to make do with what you have . We just have to get a short creative . I purchased a couple of Japanese carmine maples , and the Funka and yellow moss I had elsewhere and dug up chunks for here . There was an one-time crabapple soapbox that I left and covered with the white upside down planter , which I top off with an old satellite dish that I spray - painted blue . Then I put all the dirt the dish would hold , chuck in some yellow moss , and added the naughty gazing ball . The hosta take off , and the yellow moss has done great too . This was a merriment project , as all of my garden project are .

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