Hi Tony. If you have a problem with DIY then please Do not hesitate to contact me. I am in Newcastle and will do it for free. Although it is quite amusing to watch you struggle.🤣
Hello Tony , i feel your pain when it comes to growing Carrots , i now do not grow them in the ground instead i use those styrofoam boxes like the ones used for transporting fish in . I now grow very nice carrots . They also keep them warm , & they come with lids . All that is needed are 2 holes that i put into the bottom sides NOT in the bottom then fill them with a very fine compost & fine vermiculite & away you go . One great advantage is that you can move these boxes anywhere you want them 👍
It never occurred to me to trellis sweet potato vines until I saw someone who was gardening in even less space than the size of my garden, put a large trellis on the side of a shed or the back wall of the detached garage, a trellis large enough to cover that side of said building. Smart move, since it got the vines out of the way and allowed the planting of other crops in the remaining space. Sweet potato vines aren't natural climbers, though: they want to sprawl. And according to a couple of sites found on Google, while the vines will put out roots where they touch the soil, they do *NOT* produce tubers/sweet potatoes on those roots. Sweet potato plants store their energy in the vines and those roots they develop where the vines touch the ground help to feed the plant, sweet potatoes are formed only on the roots where the original "slip" was planted. Thus sayeth the experts, which I most assuredly am not, or at least the more experienced. If those poles covered in green plastic are the same construction as the ones we get here, the core is steel or some ferrous metal, as I discovered when two of those I had left outside for a couple of calendar years lost a lot of the coating (cracked, peeled, fell away) and the exposed metal rusted. And as you've observed, they are expensive, at least for this gardener's pockets. Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
That teepee will work.. You'll have to help them wind a bit. I prefer to let them go on the soil as the vine puts down more roots and spots to grow more potatoes. I've had mixed success. The last time something ate from under ground.......arghhhhh!
The potatoes do grow under the soil, but the vines want to sprawl *everywhere,* and given free rein, they do just that. And if they're behaving like a ground cover, you don't get to use that ground for anything else. (By the way, although where sweet potato vines touch soil they put down additional roots, those roots do not produce more sweet potatoes themselves; they do, however, feed the vines which is where the plant stores its energy, so *in theory* more roots mean more sweet potatoes produced at the location the original "slip" was planted.) A trellis is a great way to allow the gardener to grow sweet potatoes, and other foods in space the vines would be covering if allowed to sprawl. HTH. 😊💚😊
Hi Tony. If you have a problem with DIY then please Do not hesitate to contact me. I am in Newcastle and will do it for free. Although it is quite amusing to watch you struggle.🤣
Winter didnt get cold enough to split the Garlic Tony
Definitely leave the jalapeños to go red for a good bit of heat!
Hello Tony , i feel your pain when it comes to growing Carrots , i now do not grow them in the ground instead i use those styrofoam boxes like the ones used for transporting fish in . I now grow very nice carrots . They also keep them warm , & they come with lids . All that is needed are 2 holes that i put into the bottom sides NOT in the bottom then fill them with a very fine compost & fine vermiculite & away you go . One great advantage is that you can move these boxes anywhere you want them 👍
Hi Tony, you are funny, at least you have got them sweet potatoes stayed up. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
You had me choking on my coffee.. "that looks shit " 🤣🤣
The fence still wants repairing been like it two years
oh Tony! When you stepped up on the stool, I had visions of you pitching over into those lovely peppers! Take care!
It never occurred to me to trellis sweet potato vines until I saw someone who was gardening in even less space than the size of my garden, put a large trellis on the side of a shed or the back wall of the detached garage, a trellis large enough to cover that side of said building.
Smart move, since it got the vines out of the way and allowed the planting of other crops in the remaining space.
Sweet potato vines aren't natural climbers, though: they want to sprawl. And according to a couple of sites found on Google, while the vines will put out roots where they touch the soil, they do *NOT* produce tubers/sweet potatoes on those roots. Sweet potato plants store their energy in the vines and those roots they develop where the vines touch the ground help to feed the plant, sweet potatoes are formed only on the roots where the original "slip" was planted. Thus sayeth the experts, which I most assuredly am not, or at least the more experienced.
If those poles covered in green plastic are the same construction as the ones we get here, the core is steel or some ferrous metal, as I discovered when two of those I had left outside for a couple of calendar years lost a lot of the coating (cracked, peeled, fell away) and the exposed metal rusted. And as you've observed, they are expensive, at least for this gardener's pockets.
Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
That teepee will work.. You'll have to help them wind a bit. I prefer to let them go on the soil as the vine puts down more roots and spots to grow more potatoes.
I've had mixed success. The last time something ate from under ground.......arghhhhh!
Oh, well at least you tried.
put tennis balls on those poles cheaper than new plastic
Most if my garlic was same didn’t split so going to plant all again lol
I’m trying to string up my sweet potato plant in my poly tunnel. I just tied a string on each tendril thing…as they grow I wind them round.
I’ve just found out that sweet potatoes belong to the bindweed family!
I see nothing wrong with your sweet potato structure.
Gorgeous dog ❤
All my normal garlic split different story with the elephant garlic huge but not one split 🤔 all planted the same day in October strange 🙄
Tony are those monobulbs Elephant or regular garlic?
Elephant 😂🌈
Sweet potatoes grow under the soil, why trellis them?
The potatoes do grow under the soil, but the vines want to sprawl *everywhere,* and given free rein, they do just that. And if they're behaving like a ground cover, you don't get to use that ground for anything else. (By the way, although where sweet potato vines touch soil they put down additional roots, those roots do not produce more sweet potatoes themselves; they do, however, feed the vines which is where the plant stores its energy, so *in theory* more roots mean more sweet potatoes produced at the location the original "slip" was planted.)
A trellis is a great way to allow the gardener to grow sweet potatoes, and other foods in space the vines would be covering if allowed to sprawl. HTH.
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