Trellis Gardening – An Organic Gardening How To
When planting your own vegetable garden, one of the first things you have to consider is how much space you have in your garden and what kind of vegetables it is that you want to plant. In this Organic Gardening How To Blog post, I want to show you a simple way how you can grow a lot of vegetables in even a small garden space.
Many types of vegetables, such as zucchini, cucumbers and peas, are viny plants and take up a great deal of garden space if planted solely on the ground. You may be especially shocked at how much space it takes if you grow more than one of these plants.
To solve this type of problem, grow these types of plants on a trellis. The trellis can be made out of wood, PVC, steel pipe, or even wire. I’ve provided a video below that shows a number of different ways to build a trellis. Watch this Organic Gardening How To video:
My favorite way to make a trellis is the third way that they show in the video…making it out of PVC pipe. I’ve used that way of doing it this year and it was simple to do, inexpensive, and worked very effectively. Best of all, come Winter I can disassemble it and store it in a small space in our carport.
Another cool thing about making a trellis in this manner is that I can start growing lettuce much earlier in late Fall because the lettuce is shaded from the heat of the sun.
An added benefit to growing viny vegetable plants on a trellis is that the leaves get more exposure to the sun and will stay much greener. And, cucumbers grow much straighter due to the force of gravity… this makes them much easier to peel and cut.
Until next time from the Organic Gardening How to Blog…