Let's get spooky everyone. We're talking about pumpkins today and specifically

we're talking about growing your pumpkins up vertically on a trellis.

If you're small space gard, this is a fantastic idea.

To be honest with you, pumpkins are a crop

I have much less experience with than other plants

simply because in my old front yard garden

to grow a pumpkin meant to not grow other plants with at least a 4 by 4 square foot space

needed if you do not trellis. That basically means that you're dedicating at least a whole bed, if not a little bit more, to a pumpkin,

and I just didn't want to make that sacrifice at that point in time.

I wanted to grow some other crops.

And so you really know bounds when it comes to growing pumpkins vertically.

You just have to make sure that you keep a few things in mind.

You really can't put them on some baby trellis, some little baby back trellis.

You gotta up the game and give them something quite nice to support themselves with.

So if you're trying to grow them up like a simple bamboo, it's really not going to be a good idea.

I would go with metal. I wouldn't even go with plastic. Something flexible might bend.

You just have to get sturdy. So if you're going to do a DIY trellis you can use a

U or T post and drive that into the ground about five feet apart at least a foot deep and then what you want to do is use

steel wire and or nylon netting and that will help so you just need a solid steel post in the ground because again

if you're growing them up vertically you're gonna have multiple pumpkins

hanging at a somewhat awkward angle sometimes and causing a lot of stress on a relatively

weak trellis. So that's one thing you can do. Something called a P fence or P trellis

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