Growing Melons on a Trellis | Vertical Growing
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- We had a lot of feedback from viewers when we first started growing cantaloupe and watermelon plants on a trellis. They were concerned that the fruit would be too heavy as it hung from the vines on the trellis and those were reasonable concerns! Fortunately we had a plan to help make it all work. Check out this video to see our solution!
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there's something so wholesome about a melon hanging out in a hammock 🥺
Very true!
More than a banana
Glad to see the melons getting the support they need. :)
So are we!
Cantyhammies!! Cute! Will definitely try this! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching. It really worked well! We will use it again if needed.
What a great idea! That would save a ton of space growing them on trellis.
It sure does!
You have given me so many ideas. I am going to try some of the ways you've grown and secured your melons. Maybe next try I will do better. Again thanks for the awesome information.
Thank you! The slings really have been doing a good job. Hopefully the melons will be rip soon!
Bath loofah works too. Just cut the string that holds it all together in the center. It comes out like a netted tube. Cheap and easy.
That is a great idea! Thanks for sharing.
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This is awesome!
Thank you!
Too cute...looks like a baby carrier!! Your melons look great!! Thanks for the info...I was one of the "concerned" folks...I'd never seen melons growing on trellis' before...cool idea now I might have room to grow some too.
It does help with room for sure. Those plants do take up a lot of room!
Good job of using what you have!
Thank you!
I'm putting those 2 recipes in the mail tomorrow. Enjoy.
Awesome! Thank you !
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Thank you. I hope it does also!
@@RockingCHomestead Im still subbed so it must of worked.
Just awesome!!! 🍉🍉🍉
Thank you! We hope this helps you grow some melons. Thanks for watching.
@@RockingCHomestead it truly does!! Planted some today. 💕🍉
Good video!
Thank you!
Gonna need a bigger shirt of you have bigger melons 😂 great video, thank you for sharing! I cant wait to try this type of growing
Thank you! You will need a bigger shirt for sure.
This works , I did it last season.
It really does. We may try to up the hanging game next year. We will just have to see.
I grow my cantaloupe vertically, like you but I have never had to support the melons. They stay hanging on the vine until they are ripe (to the rind), then they detach. If they fall to the ground, it does not hurt them. I have always had problems figuring out when some things are ripe in my garden. With melons, I just look for them on the ground. They are always ripe and delicious.
Thanks for the tips and thanks for watching.
Interesting. I think an experiment is In order! I'm going to support some and not support some. Thanks for the idea!
Spray with baking soda water for powdery mildew.
Thanks for the advise. We will do that this year!
Neem oil works great for white powdery mildew as well as aphids as well
Hi Lance and Marci! I have some beautiful melon plants growing on a vertical trellis and they have lots of male flowers but very few females. Any ideas for what to use to fertilize them to get some fruit growing and to get some female flowers and fruit to set? I have used a straight 5-5-5 but I think they might need something that gets the fruits to grow. I hope you have ideas!
I thought I replied to this already, but it doesn't look like it went through! I would try a cotton swab and pollinate it manually.
Hi love the goats do you use the milk from the goats or make butter
We do not make butter, but we do use the milk to make chesses, yogurt, and soap. We love their milk. To make butter out of our goats milk, we would need to cream separator and they are expensive and take a while to process.
Because ofthe shape. Could cut in half
Very true!
May I know in what ratio should I use the following for my potted melon? Vermicast, composted chicken manure, bone meal, black soil, burnt soil, perlite, vermiculite. Thank you.
We use a Super Soil mixture, that we have done a video over and is in our playlist. It is hard to tell you what you need without knowing when kind of soil you are working with already.
What is your spacing for planting when trellising melons?
I think we went 12 - 16 inches. We kind of push the spacing to be a little tighter in the raised beds. Once the plants start to climb they go everywhere. We just try to tie them up where there is room. Didn't seem to make a difference in how they grew last year.
Are there any problems with the hammocks getting wet from the rain?
None that we saw! We do not get a lot of rain during the growing season so they stay pretty dry. Another person left a comment about using a bath loofah, one of those mesh ones. That could help if you live in a real rainy part of the world.
I am going to grow Honeymoon melon on a cattle panel trellis. How many plants do you grow on one trellis?
These beds are 8 foot long, and we have two panels on them. I think we had about 4 or 5 plants.
Legends say upto this day, the goodest doggo is still waiting to be let in the garden
For sure! Ours would tear everything up!
Hello my icebox sugar baby watermelons (some trellised some not) are over-taking my garden! How do I trellis plants that have already started growing too big? They're vining their way across the ground thru my peppers and tomatoes! I'm in need of some serious advice!
If you can get them up and tie them you can try to get them growing on something. Those plants are pretty bendy, but be careful.
@@RockingCHomestead Thanks!! I'm trying!! and some I'm just letting grow along the ground, just rerouting.
how many total cantaloupes plants did you plan on the trellis?
I think we planted 6 of them. They spread out pretty good like cucumbers.
long as they don't want you to use a "banana hammock" LOL
Very true!
Don't that block the sun from the melon?
It does, but the melon really doesn't need sun, just the plants.
@@RockingCHomestead oh. Thanks for helping me learn farming!