2 Min. Tip: How We Train Crops Up Trellises (Vertical Gardening)

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In today's 2 minute tip, I share how we train vertical crops like tomatoes, winter squash, pumpkins, watermelons, and scarlet runner beans up our conduit/remesh trellises. If you shop on Amazon, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Featured Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPLtYpWkg8

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Thank you really enjoyed the video, your trillest idea is great! I watched the video on how you make them, they seem to work really well! On my way to the store now👍...
Happy Gardening! 😀

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i might try an old badminton net.

Years ago when I was just starting my vegetable garden, I had heard that pole beans should only be supported vertically. The reason being that they will start wrapping around horizontal supports and choke themselves out. Thus, I have only used vertical supports (as opposed to any kind of mesh).

Your video got me thinking about this and after following your videos for quite a while now, I've seen that you challenge conventional garden wisdom then test to see if a particular practice has any real benefit. I noticed that you're not afraid to change your traditional practice if your testing shows no benefit (your compost tea video comes to mind).

Its a small thing, but I'm going to test this (relatively minor) practice to see if I'm wasting my time by stringing supports only vertically. It would be so much easier to put up a trellis, mesh or net.

Its weird how one becomes attached to practices one has done for many years, isn't it?

Keep up the great work!

Hi i love ur videos. Quick question - can i prune tomato

Hello! I am assuming that your trellises are positioned north to south. How far apart are they (north to south)? thanks!

My 1st year growing pumpkins on trellis's, was wondering if I should weave the plants thru or tie um to the trellis...thanks for the tips, couldn't find an answer to this on YouTube until I found this video! Thanks! 😊

Thanks for sharing +OneYardRevolution | Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening For about 6 years now, I have been growing pole beans on my fence that around the garden. I plant inside and outside and what a massive wall of leaves and vine and soon beautiful long Blue Lake stringless beans. This is the first year of doing the same with Scarlet runners, but after eating the inner beans at my moms house this past winter, I had to get some and grow on my own.
Have a blessed day my friend.

What orientation are your garden beds you use for vertical gardens? Do they shade out the other beds?

When you train your veggies, it's important that they want to learn. ;)
Good stuff, as usual, Patrick.

Thanks for the tips, very helpful!

All very easy, but my problem with melons and watermelons is how to prune them to stop them taking over the entire trellis or section of garden.

I let the main shoot reach around 4 feet and then pinch it out, and pinch out the sideshoots lower down at three or four leaves. For the first couple of weeks it all looks fine.

Then I 'blink' and on the next visit to the greenhouse or trellis, the melon is a multi stemmed monster with shoots going in all directions and swamping everything grown nearby, and even some of the fruit is buried in the foliage.

Perhaps you could do a video at some future date on how to properly train melons to avoid this. Perhaps I am just to cautious about cutting away too much foliage, but I am always fearful if I cut away too much vegetation I will damage the plant and the setting of fruit. How much can be removed without doing this?

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Thanks for that Patrick. Trellises do really save space in the garden!

That's neat work Patrick

Great vid and I use the "hammock" technique for heavy fruits/veggies too. ;)

One thing you left out is how fun it is to train plants. Love your garden.

Always worth watching mate.

Good tips, Patrick!

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