Upright Gardening

We have been experimenting with all sorts of supports to grow our vegetables on. Because all of our gardening is done in raised beds, it is much more space effective to grow vertically rather than horizontally. The picture shows one example of a wooden trellis used to grow pumpkins. Other people have used wire fencing supports, plastic pipe supports, and tomato cages used for other vegetables, such as green beans. We have even grown melons on supports, using nylon stockings for slings to support the fruit when it got too big. This has been quite successful, and we will probably continue to experiment as our gardens grow, both in size and amount of food produced.