rhoda_bruce
Almost Self-Reliant
I have a few questions on verticle gardening....mainly the distance to plant certain seeds, which I will be looking up....or DH will look it up and I can post, but I just did a search on the topic and it seemed no one had started a topic on the subject. I'm convinced that its a smart, easy way to garden and a good way to utilize your space to its maximim capacity.
From memory Momma told me to space limas every 4 feet, which seems a lot, but I normally have a very good memory. I'd imagine I can push it and go 3ft, to increase some yields, but idk.
We have planted tomatoes, cucs (2 varieties), squash (3 varieties).
We will be planting luffas, birdhouse goards, cantomelon, watermelon, limas, greenbeans.
We have also planted corn, which we will be putting cowpeas to grow up on, so thats kinda verticle gardening as well; in a sense.
We started our current garden location.....generally speaking.....about 20 years ago, with a 20X30 foot area and managed to bring a large basket of food in the house a few times a week, so it did make a difference in our food bill from the very beginning, but our current plan is taking up a much larger space and we haven't quite decided to call it quits on our expansions.
We are planting 3 metal fence poles and erecting cattle panels to these and are spacing them like soldiers in a line.
Diseased trees are coming down and being burned and hurricaned damaged.....side=ways trees are being severely pruned and cleaned of vines to consider using for growing of goards.
All this is occuring in the general area of bee hives and the panels and beds are just far enough that I believe grass can be cut almost right up to the plants, then just deweed the immediate pot or tiny bed the seeds/plants are in, rather than keep an enormous area free of all unwanted vegetation (I mean none of us are getting any younger and we might as well not set ourselves up for mission impossible).
I really think a lot of our vegetables can be grown vertically. Last year I had a few tomatoes that we hadn't set up a frame for and they trailed out all over the surrounding area and it was a mess with the grass and weeds trying to compete for the space.
Anyway, I really think we will be able to work less and have more food enter the house. Might have even designed a garden too big for our needs and have to sell or barter with some. What an awesome problem.
From memory Momma told me to space limas every 4 feet, which seems a lot, but I normally have a very good memory. I'd imagine I can push it and go 3ft, to increase some yields, but idk.
We have planted tomatoes, cucs (2 varieties), squash (3 varieties).
We will be planting luffas, birdhouse goards, cantomelon, watermelon, limas, greenbeans.
We have also planted corn, which we will be putting cowpeas to grow up on, so thats kinda verticle gardening as well; in a sense.
We started our current garden location.....generally speaking.....about 20 years ago, with a 20X30 foot area and managed to bring a large basket of food in the house a few times a week, so it did make a difference in our food bill from the very beginning, but our current plan is taking up a much larger space and we haven't quite decided to call it quits on our expansions.
We are planting 3 metal fence poles and erecting cattle panels to these and are spacing them like soldiers in a line.
Diseased trees are coming down and being burned and hurricaned damaged.....side=ways trees are being severely pruned and cleaned of vines to consider using for growing of goards.
All this is occuring in the general area of bee hives and the panels and beds are just far enough that I believe grass can be cut almost right up to the plants, then just deweed the immediate pot or tiny bed the seeds/plants are in, rather than keep an enormous area free of all unwanted vegetation (I mean none of us are getting any younger and we might as well not set ourselves up for mission impossible).
I really think a lot of our vegetables can be grown vertically. Last year I had a few tomatoes that we hadn't set up a frame for and they trailed out all over the surrounding area and it was a mess with the grass and weeds trying to compete for the space.
Anyway, I really think we will be able to work less and have more food enter the house. Might have even designed a garden too big for our needs and have to sell or barter with some. What an awesome problem.