A Complete Guide to Vertical Gardening (On A Budget!) | Growing Food Made Simple
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So many people dismiss growing vertically in their garden assuming it isn’t worth the cost or effort. Today I’m telling you, from my experience, the many benefits of vertical gardening, how to do it cheaply, and what you can grow!
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fantastic info, thank you
Excellent video
Is the welded wire and the T-posts food-safe metal when weathered?
Squash that grows over the trellis the melons the pins the beans do you take all of that down and compost it and then and then have a winter garden that grows over it??
With jelousy I watch such simple thing as staking tbar into the ground. Our soil is river rocks and most of the vertical garden methods are just not possible for us. I can’t drive anything into the ground, I can make holes by taking rocks out, so everything I’ll think of for vertical gardening will have to be sunstantial construction. I tried panels, but run into the same problem. Looking at your video gave me dome ideas. Il like jlhiw you have oanels between your raised beds. What is the space between them? Is it four feet, or more?
I thoroughly enjoyed your video, if you make your own compost, please show us on a video please
This has been a great video. I found it to be very useful.
Thank you. Have a great day.
Really nice and informative video. The next growing season here in KS, I intend to try some of these ideas. We have a deck coming off our 2nd story and I’m thinking that would be a good place to plant a few things. Thank you and happy growing!
You should have a whole lot more likes, your info is very informative! Thank you!
You can use rope and bamboo too
This is great and informative video! I was able to buy 4 cattle panels last year and enjoyed growing my beans on them. This year I plan on growing cucumbers, vining squash, pole beans, and some tomatoes. Also passion flower.
What do you do at the end of season with all the plants after harvest? Do they re grow the next year or take it all out and replant from scratch following spring
Want to hear something crazy? When I was younger my Dad bent those cattle panels into cylinders for tomato cages which I thought was wild considering the difficulty, but they quite literally will last forever. 10/10 tip on using those.
Put up 2 vertical trellises each on 2 t posts and hung the 3 ft high (5 ft wide) coated galvanized wire material from Home Depot. I’m growing peas on it now..
I plan to grow winter melon on it later this summer. Any idea how much weight can my trellis hold without falling over? They are 7 ft t-posts and I dug them into the ground 2.25 ft….
The melons may grow to about 10-20 lbs each and I expect to have maybe 3-4 on each trellis. Will it hold or fall over? Lol
The absolute disgust at how much these items cost vs 5 years ago
A trip to home Depot was so helpful thank you thank you thank you.
Well done.
Thank you so much! Such an amazing video
quick question. Are you at all worried about the trellises being on the north side of your garden?
Good tips thanks
Thank you somuch for these infos…
Such a great video. Thank you!
A wonderfully helpful channel
My favourite
Thanks so. Much
170cm T post in New Zealand are over $10 a pop and those are the cheap ones! usually $14+ oh my…
Thanks for sharing all this information!
Talk too much to get to the point.
I just came back here realizing this was the video I first saw on this subject and years later we have these cattle panel trellises in our garden now! Planted: Chinese noodle beans, snake beans, snow peas, cucumelons, sun gold select cherry tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, super sweet 100, 2 types of cucumbers, a bunch of cantaloupe, sweet peas and clematis on the front. (It’s a long trellis:).
5 years later and your taking a break so I’m back watching old videos!
Couldnt you be opening your garden up to a Giant invasion from those tall beanstalks? Fee Fye Foe Fun!
You have a beautiful garden on big yard. Your local home deport has big garden center. Where is it?
Cattle panels are $32.99 for 16ft x 50in here in Southern NM.
Gardening because america is way too damn expensive
Very helpful!
Your channel has been so helpful to me. Thank you for all this great information and truth be told your smiling dimples make me smile. Your content is a joy to watch.
Fantastic and thorough! Thank you !
Great video, thank you!
Do you have a plot layout of how you’ve arranged your garden beds?♥
I love your shirt
thanks for the tips
Watching this 6 years later and still learning from you Jess!!!! Thank you so very much
God bless you sweetie!!
Crying at these prices in 2024.
Absolutely perfect video. Thank you.
Do you sell the seeds for the Warted Incan Creampuff Squash? I cannot seem to find them on line. Thank you.
What size grow bag would you use for trellis gardens (the cattle panel will be in the ground like normal but the roots of the plant will be in a grow bag)
Cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, grapes ??
Watching this (again!) 5 years after your first posted it and I am so struck by the degree to which you have found your voice! Love the way you have grown into your role teaching, sharing, inspiring, and dropping seeds (pun intended) that we mull over on subjects we might not have thought about otherwise. Good on you!
What’s cleanup like at the end of the season with all the dead foliage/ leaves still on the trellises?
Not me watching this video again in 2024 crying about how t posts are now 3x the price.
Excellent info. Thank you
Thank you for this video I watched it few
times. you’re amazing at explaining stuff thank u
Really useful information, great video. Thank you!
Do you have a video of building your raised gardens? Looks like you use a lot of natural resources using a saw mill?
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