6: Plants that Climb & Sprawl: Choose the Best Trellis Option for Your Garden, Big or Small
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, I talk about a subject that is so much fun for me! I just love growing vegetables "up."
In the podcast, I discuss your best bets for beans, peas, cucumbers, and tomatoes. And because I list lots of ideas in the podcast, this week's show notes are chock-full of ideas to get you started.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden Podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and if you're a beginning gardener, my goal is to give you the most basic, easy to understand information to help you grow the Beginners Garden podcast. Today we're going to talk about a subject that is so much |
| 0:39.8 | fun for me. It's all about using trellises in your garden for the crops that grow up and out. |
| 0:46.6 | If that seems overwhelming for you, I'm going to make it simple today and give you plenty of resources |
| 0:51.8 | in today's show notes that will help you decide what will work |
| 0:54.5 | best in your garden. Some of my favorite vegetables to grow are the ones that grow upward, and I consider |
| 1:01.1 | it a fun challenge to find all the best ways to support those vegetables. But if you're first |
| 1:07.3 | gardening, what I just said probably has already started to overwhelm you. |
| 1:11.8 | You're merely trying to keep your garden alive this year, and now I'm talking about building things? |
| 1:17.5 | Don't worry, I had no clue what I was doing either. |
| 1:20.6 | In fact, last week my husband taught me how to use his power tools for the very first time. |
| 1:26.1 | And granted, while he has either built by himself or we've built together what I use now, |
| 1:32.3 | everything I used in the beginning I did on my own. |
| 1:35.3 | Well, I'm not a very good builder, so those didn't work out so well, but people that |
| 1:39.3 | have more skills than me could probably figure it out. |
| 1:42.3 | So the suggestions I make today will apply to everyone from |
| 1:46.1 | the beginner with no building knowledge like me or those with an itching to do a project. |
| 1:52.1 | Before you start making trellis plans though, first we need to consider the crops that need |
| 1:57.3 | trellising and what their individual growth habits are. One trellis certainly doesn't fit all. |
| 2:04.3 | First, I have to start with my favorite, and that is beans. Now, I know many of you probably plant |
| 2:10.7 | the bush variety of beans, and those certainly do not need a trellis. I have grown both bush beans |
| 2:16.5 | and pole beans, and I have a blog post I will |
| 2:18.9 | leak two in the show notes of the differences between the two. Basically, bush beans start |
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