ARBORS or ARCHED TRELLIS

I /  We,   want to make several Arched Trellises to grow small watermelons, cantaloupes, and Asparagus yard long green beans on.----I guess the vine veggie list can get pretty long and the possibilities are endless.  Our first Arched Trellis is made of  landscape timbers and 2x4s and will be covered with  concrete re-enforcement wire with  6" mesh squares.  The main post are concreted into the raised bed block holes.
the total width and length is   43" x 56"
This trellis is built for melons.

Tomatoes Years Past

Tomato plants grown in the past years.
Brandywine tomato plant grown in  a  5 gallon pot.  All this on two vines.
Big Red one is one tomato that weighed 3 1/4 pounds. his name was Hulk.

More Brandywine  grown in the ground.  So heavy with fruit the vines insisted on dragging the ground.

More Brandywine Tomatoes

Sweet Million Cherry Tomato

tomatoes grown in 5 gallon grow bags.   1st crop I ever grew for produce sales.   If I can
do this in a 5 gallon grow bag------YOU can do this in the ground soil.

Those same plants were lowered twice---and they grew out the top of the greenhouse frame
that was 8 feet tall.

tomato plants-------Big Beef  in 5 gallon pots.

more toms in 5 gallon grow bags

The green house   Ghost (orb)

One single  Sweet Million Cherry tomato cluster.

 25 gallon pot----One plant---pruned to have one vine every 6 inches around the pot/cage

2010

2

2011

Big Beef

B

2011

Brandywine

2011  Sweet Million Cherry

2011   Tommy Toe cherry=   my least favorite flavor......  but is a.beautiful plant!

Big Beef

Raised Beds- SquareFootGardening (SFG)

My SFG
The bed soil consist  of ,  pro-mix, peat moss, commercial compost manure,
Waiting on my homemade compost that will be added in the spring.
I have several raised beds.  2 blocks high or higher.
Several  beds are just ending and have flowers in them.
All the beds are made of  Concrete Cinder Blocks.  They are Not mortared together.
They are just stacked on top of each other. (on level ground)
these are the beds that I have so far.

4x12
4x12
4x10
4x10
4x9
4x8
4x5
4x5
4x5
4x4
4x4
4x4
then there is the greenhouse beds that are 6 inches deep.
3x65
3x65
3x67

an old pic from this past year is the  Blue Easy Wave Petunia bed at  the entrance of my drive way.
I want to grow  Pink Easy Wave next year.   There are only 3 individual plants growing in this raised
bed.  More like a giant planter.  It is  4 blocks high.

June 30, 2010

 

My retreat      September 24, 2010

I  relocated many of my raised beds to my  backdoor.   The closer they are the better.

I can see everything from my kitchen window--which reminds me to  --water--fertilize-harvest-maintain.

Growing in the beds outside my back door  are---Broccoli,  Cabbage,  Cauliflower, Turnip Greens, Lettuce, Carrots, Radishes, Beets,  Strawberries, onions, chives, etc.........  

September 24, 2010
Turnip Green Bed.  4x9ft.    The plant spacing is  9 plants per square foot.

October 14, 2010
The same  turnip green bed  3 weeks later.  I think 9 plants per square foot is a little too close.
What do you think?

October 14, 2010
Cabbage and Cauliflower,   5 weeks after transplant,  planted  16 inches apart.

Broccoli and Cauliflower, 5 weeks after transplant,  planted 16 inches apart.

Vinca----seed sown in Feb.  Plant has a 16 inch spread.
One Plant in photo.

The salad bed  with a covered wagon   shade clothe-------and can be covered with poly  when  frosty out.

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October 23rd, 2010,      9 days since last post of the lettuce salad bed.

NOVEMBER 28TH  2010     HARVEST

RADISH

SHREDDER CHOPPER----chops  2 inch tree limbs and leaves,    also perfect for shredding and chopping  cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and other  veggie stalks and leaves

A PILE OF   CHOPPED  CABBAGE STALKS AND LEAVES