Calling all trellis fetishists
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Comments (2)OK, Steve, I'm game!! I'll hang with ya on this one, ya got me curious and my imagination started working just reading your post!! Yep,I'm seeing your picture ya painted in my head(stop that!!), so roll with it and see what happens, you'll hafta come and join us over at Garden Junk and show us when ya get finished!They would love to see it! Don't stop the music!!(sorry, corny!!) And don't ever say you're weird, you're CREATIVE WITH A BRILLIANT IMAGINATION! See, that's better!!! blessings-sherri...See MoreCalling all Veggie Gardeners!
Comments (12)I must admit that most of my gardens start out from weedy lawn (if you can call what I have lawn just because we mow it occasionally.) I get cardboard slip sheets from Costco or sams club. We don't get a paper so the slip sheets are easier than steeling papers out of the neighbor's recycling bins. Anyway, I cover over an area of yard with the cardboard, making sure to overlap so the weeds don't get through so fast (they will still eventually get though.) Then I dump some heavy mulch on it to keep it weighted down until we can unload mushroom compost onto it. I watch for tree services working in the neighborhood and tell them if they need to dump a load of wood chips, I have a location they can do it nearby (this way I get lots of wood chip mulch for free.) Wood chip mulch might not be perfect for gardening but it is free and usually pretty green when chipped and the leaves mixed in help it compost a bit over time. The mushroom compost is cheap from the farm near here and I've grown some great crops in piles of the stuff on top of cardboard/wood chip mulch. After a season or two of growing stuff in the compost on top of cardboard/mulch, it may be time to either dig a bit to get rid of weeds or re-do the cardboard/mulch/compost. I can say the character of the soil where I've been doing this kind of gardening has greatly improved. The native soil here is fine sand with some coarser sand below. After a season of being kept moist with mulch and compost over it, it has gotten darker and the hummus is starting to mix down and if I wish to dig in ammendments for the next season, it all starts to look more like nice dark garden soil rather than fine beach sand. Just remember to keep adding organic mater to your soil each season since fertilizer alone will not keep your soil alive. Here is a link that might be useful: TCLynx...See MoreTrellis question for EG or any other trellis expert
Comments (2)daylilyfanatic - I'll help you all that I can. The only problem with only 12" of the post below ground level is the frost line for your area. If you were to dig a 12" deep hole in the ground, set your post in it - then pour quickrete in the hole, it would work very well.....until next winter. Chances are, you would experience what is called frost heave, in which the actual freezing of the soil tries to push a shallow-buried pole upward. May I suggest positioning each post inside a used tire laid onto the ground, then filled with quickrete? It would work just fine, and could be re-located, if necessary... About the orientation of the trellis....The long side of my box runs NW/SE, and doesn't cause any problems whatsoever - But, where I live, the sun is much higher in the sky than your location. It won't hurt to try, though. I would only use wire mesh for the tendrils to attach themselves to the trellis. As Granny stated in another post, it can be a problem for growing things during cold months - but not for your summer garden. About the sock....it will work, but sure will be quite a balancing act. The great thing about using a knee high, is that it stretches very well ( and believe me, this is a good thing ) A melon vine will set it's first fruit somewhere between the first 2-4 ft of vine ( I know this from experience ), so, I allowed mine to run to the top of the trellis, then coaxed them to run sideways. Little melons were all over the place, and I helped them along the way. Doing so, allowed two of the vines to run a length of 10 ft, on a trellis that was 4ft wide and 6 ft tall. I'll be glad to show you some more pictures, because as ribbit stated in another thread - I've got quite a library! Ha! EG...See MoreCalling all genius gardeners
Comments (3)I cannot guess what your deer will do because, as Lone Jack pointed out, their behavior is highly variable. At our house? The deer would eat every plant down to the ground. Well, really, deer are not gentle eaters that nibble things down to the ground. They sort of grab the plant and yank, so often they pull up young plants out of the ground, roots and all, if they are eating in a hurry, They do that with our winter rye grass every year that we overseed with it. I wouldn't even be worried about deer. Here at our house, all beans and peas are cottontail rabbit chow. With an acre, the rabbits wouldn't put a dent in it as they are small and don't eat vast amounts. The deer might or might not. It depends on whether small herds are coming through and browsing as they travel or whether they are throwing wild parties and holding huge family reunions in your acre of peas. Animal behavior varies with their degree of hunger. In a drought year when the deer are hungry, no plants are safe. In a wetter year or a year with an abundant mast crop, they sometimes don't bother garden plants until late in the season when they run out of whatever they've been feeding on. It also depends on how many deer come through the area and find that field. Some years I grow southern peas and pole beans on the back garden fence, using it like a trellis, and nothing nibbles on the foliage that is on the outside of the fence. Other years, they strip the plants as much as they can, so we have naked plants outside the fence and pretty ones on the inside of the fence....See MoreDan _Staley (5b Sunset 2B AHS 7)
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