We Started Growing Our Vegetables Vertically & This Is What Happened
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- Growing vegetables (and fruit) vertically is easier than you think (no building required) and will give you a larger harvest with less disease! We reuse the same items over and over again, so it's a one time purchase that lasts for years. Join me on a tour of our garden where I show you 5 different plants and vertical growing options as part of the Homesteaders of America's Grow Your Own Food Tour!
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Welcome to the summer garden, have you used any vertical gardening elements with your vegetables? What has been your favorite?
I grow my tomatoes on a cattle panel. New this year we've grown our cantaloupe (his) and personal-sized watermelon (hers) on a trellis. It's helped to keep a balanced home since neither of us likes the other's melons. lol They are a good size and haven't so far required added supports. I don't know much about beans and the different types so next year we might add pole beans to the mix.
I use a high tunnel with twine and tomato clips to hold the vines.
I use cattle panels for my luffa gourds !
Melissa.. sure enjoy your videos!! You have a beautiful garden! Since I don’t have help with putting up cattle panels I use concrete mesh and put two together with zip ties for a trellis for my peas and beans... works great and easy for me to handle. I did however take bolt cutter to tracker supply and cut a cattle panel in four foot sections so I could handle it and used them for my tomatoes on t posts !!! Where there’s a will there’s a way right LOL. Also thank you for teaching me how to make sourdough sandwich bread !!!!!!!! Have a great rest of your week !!
Great video ! I do the same with cattle panel for pole beans too but also for cheyote squash , butternut, pumpkins, loofah , melons and more . th-cam.com/video/auh4HX3053k/w-d-xo.html Works and looks amazing :)
Keep a bird bath near your grapes and keep it full. They only eat your berries for the water content. If there is easily accessible water nearby (very nearby) they will go for that instead
My dad grew up near Mobile Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s. In the days before air conditioning, you can imagine how hot the house was. The house had a huge wrap-around front porch. I'm not sure what they used for trellis or mesh panels but they grew crops vertically. The entire porch and walkway to the front door were covered with several kinds of food crops including tomatoes and beans. During the depression, they ate the food they grew, of course, and in hot weather, they pretty much lived and slept out on the porch because it was much cooler than inside the house, especially upstairs (bedrooms) and kitchen (wood-fired cookstove).
That sounds lovely! Both shade and snacks! :)
How cool! I wonder how they dealt with those southern mosquitos!
Best trellis ties-cut circles from a leg of a pair of pantyhose-then cut the circle-you now have a tie that is stretchy, won’t harm tender stems.
England here: Good channel you have, just discovered it.
So Pole beans (which we call Runner Beans). Your frame is the best idea. Here's what I do.
Running East to West set a row of stakes in the ground about 12 - 18 inches apart. The number of stakes depends how many bean plants you want. Set the stakes so they are about 5 foot high, out of the ground. With your back to the stakes and facing SOUTH, set another corresponding row of stakes about 4 or 5 feet away. Make these stakes about 7 foot or 7 foot six inches out of the ground.
So you will have two rows of stakes running East to West with the shorter stakes on the North side and the taller ones to the South. Tie in a ridge pole at the tops joining each shorter stake to its corresponding taller stake. These poles (bamboo will do) will obviously be on an ascending angle as they rise from the shorter to the taller side.
Plant a bean plant at the base of each short stake. I start mine in pots indoors for a good start and to avoid the slugs that will munch the seedlings as soon as they emerge out of the ground if planted directly from seed. Tie in the bean as it begins to grow up the shorter pole. When it reaches the five foot height start to weave and tie in the plant along the sloping ridge pole. The bean will naturally want to grow in that direction (South), where the sun shines and will make a thick canopy along the ridge poles. By the time the bean reaches the end of the ridge pole, if it's about 5 feet away, it will be the end of the season.
You will get an immense crop of bean pods that hang down perfectly inside the structure. Very easy to harvest as you noted. Most people will be able to fit underneath the canopy without bending, particularly on the tall side.
The wigwam or tepee method is still traditional here for most people growing beans, but it's just not as efficient or productive or as easy to harvest.
Thanks for the thorough instructions!
Wow! This is my first time watching your program! It is wonderful to see one of my people on TH-cam showing gardening. I am part of the Cree nation and live in Canada. My garden is very small and I am looking for ways to plant more in my small space. Thank you for the great ideas! Keep up the great work!!!😊
Finished my trellis❤️ I love it so much, headed to get more hog panels. Green house is next. Wish I could post my final results. Not bad for 63 yo and working alone. It's not bragging if you back it up, right?
👏🏼 Yeah!! I'm proud you have done those posts and panels yourself! I need to lift weights!
You rock, love your positivity. What are you growing this year, I’m growing tomatoes and the extra long 3 foot string bean.
@@dracoarawn4002 I am growing everything, lol. This little project turned into half an acre garden plus 15 large containers
Where did you get the hog panels?
Hi Penny, my gosh...I am also 63. I put up 4 of the cattle panels myself. Tilled my garden and have 12 hens and two roosters!!! Lovin life. I am also alone and doing things myself. I even fenced in (myself) T post and welded wire fence 1 1/2 acres of my 5 acre property. Glad there are more healthy active 63 yr olds. God Bless
Here in northern Florida, the "cattle panel" (50inch tall X 16 ft long) at Rural King is $19.99 ea, and at Tractor Supply is $21.99 ea. Both give discounts for bulk or multiple buy. I use them for EVERYTHING {pole & bush & Chinese 3ft long beans, peas, cukes, zucs, squash (including the heavy winter types), loofa, tomatoes, and more}!!!!!! I even use them to keep the potatoes and yams off the ground to allow airflow under them. My yard is full of cattle panel arches. Harvesting them from underneath is so much easier and back saving. They are farmers and homesteaders must-haves. GREAT VIDEO!!! GOD BLESS
I agree , I use them for everything too , except next year will be my first year trying tomatoes on them ! I can"t wait. I never thought about using them to keep potatoes up . I might have to try that also :)
@@TheGreenBean With my crazy thinking, I took 2 cattle panels and cut off 1 of the ends to make hooks. Then I bent them into a circle and hooked them that way. Your diameter is about 10ft. Then I lined the bottom of the circle with 3/4 to 1 full straw bale deep and lined the walls with about 1ft of straw also. Then I filled in the middle (on top of the straw) with my dirt mix. Planted almost 10# of potatoes. Last year I used a panel over the top of them as I said before. This year I used 1ft of straw on top of them. Last year 10# turned into 60#. I am hoping the same or better this year. Harvesting is neat. I just opened the panels, pulled off the straw (saving the straw to reuse or compost). The dirt was really easy to go thru. This year 3 of these beds for potatoes and 2 for yams. The straw is for better airflow and water flow. and NO WEEDS!!!
@@davidfr924 This is an awesome idea!! I use straw and compost for my potatoes but your round cage to keep it all in and produce more potatoes is an exceptional idea. I will try it next year ....Thanks for the tip :)
Vertical gardens really saves gardener energy. No need to walk miles because you have the land. Good gardening
Not just that, but it gives you more room on your land for either an orchard or for animals providing you with potentially tonnes of extra food.
OLD LEATHER SMITH here, I live in Texas and grow strawberries, figs,pears, Extremely hot peppers, and tomatoes, grapes next year, suggestion, I painted Red Rocks of different sizes and placed them around the strawberries just before the real berries and had a friend do the same thing 4 his grapes which he hung with string and wire 2 teach the birds and it worked on my berries and on my friends grapes, GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃
WOW!!!!
That is nearly funny but smart! It helped produce more strawberries? 👏🏼
This might work perfectly in our small Zimbabwean garden ... will try it, thank you ... will share in a video
FYI, use the cattle panels for tomatoes too. We have ours on the panels and we have no problems with blight. They’re now over 12 feet high and we are in the second round of tomato crop.
We are 7a/7b so try it. We use stretchy green plant tie, it comes on a roll.
I started using wide
strips of fabric from old t-shirts to tie up tomatoes and cucumbers etc. They're soft and stretchy and don't damage the stems at all :)
Wow! Melissa has it all. She's intelligent, well-spoken, knowledgeable, feminine, beautiful, and successful. Her husband is blessed with an amazing wife. Congratulations to you both!
nah she just got a lot of white privilege
@@youarenaturewellness Wow Cherry’s comment is pretty rude, obviously one of those oh poor me people that didn’t get enough attention as a child.
If she really had it all I doubt she would be doing a youtube channel to try and make more money, never judge people having it all or not you may be surprised if you ever learn what someone’s life is really dealing with.
If you can’t be happy for other people you’ll never be happy with yourself.
And she’s not white, more of a pinkish hue so maybe she had pink privilege?
Cherry, the word “hue” means shade, like a shade of black meaning light black or really black thought you’d like to know since you weren’t privileged enough to go to school yourself.
@@youarenaturewellness Technically, she’s part Cherokee. For reference, go see what the white man did to her ancestors. A history lesson would serve you well. Or, probably not.
4:00 I was watching a video the other day of a couple who grow potatoes in straw, they cover them with a black sheet to stop the sun from getting to them and when it came to harvesting the plants were already clean, they just took them out of the straw.
Getting full leafy growth on the arched cattle panel was very beautiful in our backyard garden. 👌 garden
I think you do a good job of showing the fruits of all the hard labor required to get these gardens started. It makes me think back to when I was a kid working in my parents garden and just hating all the bugs, the heat, and having to do manual labor. Now that I am a professional working inside most days I think to myself, "She makes this look so easy. I could do this." Then I think back to when I was a kid and I remember all the labor.
This is not an easy lifestyle, but you make it look really enjoyable. Well done.
Anthony Maiorana...... well for one thing it's obvious that she loves gardening but even when you love doing something it can get tiresome. That's when you've got to have the willpower and the mindset to push yourself even when you don't want to. Melissa K Norris is an exceptionally strong-willed woman to be able to push herself to continue throughout the season while having and taking care of children and her husband as well. Add to that the fact of having some serious health issues through the years makes it even more admirable. The Bible says that a woman like this is far greater than rubies. And any man that has a wife like this lady is very fortunate and blessed! She also takes the time to produce many videos and has produced many videos and is also a great teacher who is easy to understand because of the way that she speaks. I don't know if we even realize how blessed the TH-cam World is to have her and . I hope she understands and realizes that we do very much appreciate her and her efforts. May God continue to bless her and her family!!!
Just came across this and love it already! Love to see someone sharing good information and not filling up time talking about nothing! Thank you! I am now subscribed
Im sure if you contacted MIgardener you could sell those heirloom beans to them and spread the tarheel bean all over the country!
We use concrete reinforcing wire to make tomato cages. 6 inch squares and heavy duty for years of reuse and you can make them as tall and wide as you like.
Thank you for posting on this subject. I have had c-spine fusion and discovered this past year at a new house that bending over to pick anything is really painful. so this next year its all going up, no bush anything. Im even going to train my squash plants to go up.
I have lower lumber fusion and I am showing this to my husband...would sure help with not bending!
I grow a lot vertically. Even my squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. At the end of the growing season in late September, my squash look like 8’-9’ tall trees because I remove the old leaves as it grows upwards.. I grow 8-9 varieties of tomatoes every year and 6 ft tall plants ain’t nothing. All my plants reach 15’-17’ tall by late September. The tallest tomato plant I’ve ever grown was a better boy variety and it reached 21’ 5” by late September to mid October! I plant in late February to early March in Georgia, zone 8a 30 miles south east of Atlanta...
If I had only the audio I would not of understood a lot as I have never heard of hog panels or pool noodles, but a picture speaks a thousand words.
Just FYI, used (clean, of course) pantyhose can be stripped and used to tie up any plants. It lasts forever and never binds up the plants.
I have used inverted hockey sticks with 4 foot extender stakes to support my single stem tomatoes the last two seasons. I train the tomatoes to grow to over nine feet tall! It's fun to have a hockey theme in the garden.
Great video and your brussel sprouts look amazing. Hard not to get aphids here in the Pacific Northwest with this crop but your bean shade looks like a winner. I hope your husband appreciates your beautiful hair, it’s absolutely mesmerizing.
love it. I live in Seattle and have been experimenting with vertical gardening because backyards are so small. I didn't realize that people who are not space constrained would want to be so space efficient
Particularly enjoyed your practicality in using everyday items for alternate uses; my kind of gardening. Very pleasant presentation and easy to follow/listen to. Good work!
Nice to meet you. Lots of great ideas. A truly stunning garden with lots of hard work and planning. Im in upstate NY where now its just started averaging 50° soil temp. 3rd year trellessing.
16' cattle panel $70 in a local garden center. This will be my second year cucumber cacuzza squash and naysurtium.
This year 3 more Japanese style wooded treles's coming. Glad you came up recommended. Thank you.
Love your trellis system. Here in Connecticut zone 6a I do a lot of vertical gardening. I may be eccentric but I grow butternut squash: watermelons an cantaloupes on Aframe trellises with great results. Little insect damage and perfect shaped fruits
I love that !!
Wow, I would have thought watermelon and such fruits would be to heavy to grow vertical?
Gilda Tyler slings can be used to support large fruits.
Slings 👍 I’m doing that too 😃
Amazing 👏 seems you can't go wrong going up . Up is up!!!
For years we've used those same panels for trellising our tomatoes. Just put them 1.5-2ft off the ground, large square side down, and weave them through as they grow. Great tip to use them for beans!
What a lovely video!!!
Well done, good tips Melissa
Melissa, those are all fantastic tips. I recently moved from Eastern Washington to Essex, NY. A small village in Zone 5. This will be my first time growing a garden on the East Coast. Before I moved here, I lived off the grid on Badger Mountain for 4 years. Prior to that, I lived in East Wenatchee out past Pangborn airport. I became a hobby farmer in 2010 with 2.5 acres. I have raised a lot of meat chickens, laying hens, turkeys( Broad breastfed bronzen and Narragansett). Raised hogs twice, had 4 male alpacs for fiber to spin, and 3 goats. It's been a rewarding experience learning about permaculture practices and raising animals! Happy farming to you and yours, and thank you for the great garden tips!
so many great ideas for vertical trellising. 👍 thanks for sharing
Those mountains in the background are amazing.
@Marco Polo Thanks.. I would be happy to live in the foot hills. What a beautiful place to live.
@Marco Polo Well, from my city-dweller's perspective it's all good. I'll take insects to crowds of people and noisy cars, every time.
Love your trellis ideas. The big archways are on my wishlist
Informative trellis video. Thank you ! 🎉
Love the bean trellis
love the view the mountains in the background are beautiful!
Thanks for all of your great videos. I love to watch you and see your commitment to growing healthy food. You're the best. You Rock
5 am here and what a lovely voice to hear first thing in the morning 😋😋😋
Thank you for the hog panel trellis idea! My project for this year!
Great video
Thank you for taking the time to share your gardening wisdom😊
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Nice video, thanks for sharing your garden, it's beautiful
Smart gardening. You are very talented. Lots of smart ideas. Keep going forward.
Thank you awesome awesome video. You’re garden is amazing
This so great. I am going to start a garden next year .... thanks
Very cool for a bunch a different reasons.
Thanks for the inspiration for a gardening spot for next year in my yard...new subscriber from Missouri :0)
remember that the EASTERN sides of WA and ORE do NOT Get the rain the west coast does
Your pole beans are incredible!!
Very well presented and good info! Tftv
NIce!! Looking to grow beans this year for the first time. This was very helpful.
That's great idea
I just found your channel, your homestead is amazing! We live in 7B , Virginia. I'm definitely going to do more trellis this year. Thanks for all the great information.
Excellent presentation
Ty so much. I definitely need to incorporate vertical produce. I have a small property as and this will give me soooooo much more produce. Ty for sharing. ♥️
When I put up my ranchpanel arch for grapes, I "wove" the T-posts between a couple of rows of panel squares to attach it. I put the panel on inside of T-posts up high about half way, then pushed the upper part of the panel arch out enough to capture the top of T-post between a row of panel squares and finished pushing panel down to ground. That sucker is not moving regardless of wind with no clips or wiring to posts. Really quite easy to put on or take off as the arch has enough play in it to sway as you need.
Excellent! Beautiful & very intelligent garden & gardener. 👍👍👍
Simple but effective solution.thanks!!!
I love my cattle panel arches in my garden too! I have two 12 foot long raised beds and have a cattle panel trellis from one to another on ends. It’s worked great for me so far.
Amazing Information, Thanks.
Yay cattle panels! I just got one! Also in the PNW and looking forward to giving vertical growing a try ☺️
beautiful garden it my favorite too guys thank
I love our hog panels and we just added 8ft goat panels in the beds with only 2 posts.
Great content. Thanks for sharing.☺
yes! my winter squash has never done so well, 1st year with hog panel trellis
Thank you Melissa for showing us your COOL vertical garden as well as sharing your expertise and knowledge with us, and from the beauty of your garden, crossing my fingers and hoping ya all get a late frost at October 10th! :)
Thank you for doing this video. Our climate here on the West Coast of New Zealand is very similar to yours, and I have been planning to do more vertical gardening this year. Your tips are helpful!
great advices, defenetely trying , BTW, beautiful land and those mountains on the back,stunning place. suscribing right now.
Wow... !!! My best friend, Great... Awesome... Full watched. Thanks Have a happy day!
Now I know why my pole beans did not grow,I tried to grow them in a hanging planter. So glad you did this video,it helps me a lot. Thank You
A stock panel is a awesome idea.
Wow do you people to help harvest all this I sure hope so! Beautiful garden love the vertical growing ideas
Thank you for the ideas! Subscribed and I’m here at 3k feet Northern California. So many micro climates here. Thanks
I'm just now watching this video. In mid Texas by July to August we're putting in our second garden. And hoping it don't burn
You are an incredibly fortunate person! I dream of owning land like that! I just got my 1st deck to grow on and I'm elated! Lol # GOALS.😄✌🌱❤
I like when I work hard for things and ppl say I must be lucky to have them 🙂
Love this video. We hope to try this technique this year at our cottage in zone 4A. Cannot wait to get started. 🤩
I really enjoy your videos Melissa. I know it's part of "free" YT content, but it's incredibly nice not to see commercials on your channel!
Enjoying your videos, new subscriber!!
Cheers from Arkansas!!
I learned from last garden what I will be trellising this fall using the hog panel system
Oh, Melissa - I love your channel...and I am seriously thinking about signing up for your classes. Might be relocating, so we'll see. Good job!
Thank you so much for mentioning the zone thing. I'm in zone 9a but also in the Pacific northwest, coastal southern Oregon. Which means I get a lot of conflicting information about what I can grow and when.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative!
Your comment about frost dates was so interesting! I live near Madison Wisconsin which is Zone 5a. However, your first and last frost dates make your growing season shorter than here, despite having the zone differences
Cattle panels! I finally got one this season too ($24.00 at Coastal Farm and Ranch). It worked out so well I'll be adding another next year. I grew sweet peas, and pole beans on mine. When the sweat peas died, I succession planted Kirby Cucumbers and made pickles for the first time. Pickles for the win! I'll have to rearrange mine to make more room for lettuce underneath.
I'm just a bit down south of you in Oregon, Zone 6a. Last frost in mid April, All in by Mother's day, First frost late Oct. But yea, Strange spring last year got everything off to a slow start.
Great ideas.. thanks for sharing 🤗🌻
Awesome!
You’ve given me an idea for our plot at the Peapatch. Will be going vertical for many things. Will keep it at 6’ or less. Thanks.
It’s so amazing how you grow pole beans
If melissa danced near the pole beans would that make her a pole bean dancer
I really enjoy your videos. I'm a new subscriber and enjoy your way of speaking. I'll be watching.
I subscribes because I’m also in the PNW and yes I thought it was weird that we got rain pretty much every other day but I also was thankful because I didn’t water anything for months and I loved it.
Tips on the tomatoes. Plant them on both sides of cow panel and tie them to the panel. I use concrete blocks so the panel is 1/2 foot from the ground.It works perfectly
Very useful information.
Watching this now in December as Puget Sound Native, everything in my garden died out with the killing frost that came very late this season in October. BUT my Parsley and Sugar Snap peas from my 4th round of plantings are still going, besides my winter greens that is. It's been surprisingly mild this winter. Of course, my winter hardy greens are loving it and I am loving them. Here is to hoping we do get a hard frost that is accompanied by some snow down here and not mostly up in the Olympics/H'oh Rainforest and Cascades in the coming winter months for that snowpack for the summer months.
I'm a brand new gardener and love growing different types of beans. This year I had to make do with some DIY trellises but next year I'm going to plan ahead and get the cattle panels in place. They look neat and sturdy compared to my twining trellis. Thanks for the informative video. I'm better prepared. I am also in PNW zone 8b.
4x16 hog panels are $22 at tractor supply in southeast Kansas ... love em for grapes berries beans peas...cheers!
It's worth growing some bamboo (there are several types, some has no problem with cold climate), it's providing an annual dose of stakes to tie stuff to - e.g. cucumber or tomato. We have a type in our garden that does not get thicker than 1/3 inch but is extremely strong and flexible, grow up to 7 feet+ so you can use it well as vertical part of a trellis (still need a solid frame to tie it to at the top, of course). Last year we also used it to create horizontal frame elements.
Which variety do you grow that is that thin?
@@nathanieljebediahcourtwrig4557 Dont know about the name, the thickest is like 10mm in diameter but most of them less, normally 6-7mm, about 2m-s long (the longest so far was about 5m). I will try to find out the variety.
@@koborkutya7338 Thank you! Me neighbor got 250 bamboo stakes about that thick and 4 feet long. They are super useful