Garden Girl TV: Vertical Gardening One(How to Grow Vertically)

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows you techniques to get more out of limited landspace, by growing up.

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Vertical Gardening Part 1

As urban gardeners, we have a limited amount of space to grow our vegetables and flowers. What I have done is I have employed verticle gardening.

Right here as you can see, I have a variety of different cucumber plants. Now, a cucumber is vining crop, which means that with vertical support like this one, you can train it to grow up and the fruit,

Take a look right here, can grow perfectly fine on the vine.

Different types of crops that work well in a vertical garden are watermelon and pumpkin. Let us go take a look.

Here, as you can see, my pumpkin plants are thriving. Pumpkin plants are also vining crops. Now, in the country, where you have a lot of space, you can just let this grow along the ground, but here in a city environment, we do not have all that space.

So, what I have done here is, I put together a dog kennel. This is actually really nifty. It is exactly 4 x 4 so it fits perfectly in your raise beds. And, these vines just slough on themselves eventually. You do not have to continuously train them.

Okay, so you can go vining crops on vertical supports, but there are other types of plants that also need support like my heirloom tomatoes here, this are Tiffin Mennonite tomatoes, and it grows to be a huge plant.

So what I have done is I have installed this vertical support where the plant has basically grown through the vertical support. I do not even have to train it through; it is growing through on its own.

I have my garden pea. These garden peas have pretty much attached on this vertical support on their own, and as you can see, I have a bunch of pea pods growing through. Let me show you how to build one of this, it is really super easy.

(Demo)

Great, this is nice and sturdy. And, all I have to do is unscrew it from the raise bed and move it anywhere I need it.

I am Patti the Garden Girl, thanks for watching.

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[spencedawg8]

I also grow vertically. I have the garden master's bucket garden that is about 4' wide x 8' long x 6' high. I had some watermelon last summer. Vertical gardening is great!

[SocialistDemocracy]

@persafe1 interesting... it was helpful, thanks for the replying

[persafe1]

@SocialistDemocracy...yes, I have found that it does.  This past year I planted only 6 standard cucumber plants and then made a trellis for them. Most of the plants were trained to go up the trellis except for one, which I allowed to grow along the ground. I got awesome fruit from the parts that went up the trellis but the part on the ground did not bear much fruit and it was a lot smaller. Hope this helps!

[SocialistDemocracy]

Do any experienced gardeners know if growing cucumbers or any other fruit / veggi vertically alters their growth in anyway

[shar3764]

love this...thank you. Keep up the good work.

[7reemo]

I love this vedio Miss.... I hope you have more to come.... REEMO :) Be well

[viscon2011]

It's a rare treat to learn valuable skills from someone who is also very easy to listen to and look at! A match made in heaven!

[SoulSurvivorX2]

We have several climbing veggie plants growing and love them. Spinach, Cucumber...etc. Unfortunately we are limited to how much we can grow because we live in a condo. Thanks for sharing...love your garden :)

[mlano5]

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