I share how I am growing vegetables vertically in the garden! Use my code growfully and the link https://shakerandspoon.com/growfully to get $20 off your first Shaker & Spoon box!
Growing vegetables vertically in the garden has many benefits- including the ability to grow more food in less space, improving air circulation and there-by the occurence of diseases in your garden plants and more! I share the biggest benefits I’ve found in my own garden as well as a few mistakes I’ve made along the way.
00:00 Intro
00:44 The Benefits of Growing Vegetables Vertically in the Garden
01:52 What I’m Growing Vertically + One of my favorite things to use for trellises
02:58 Vertical Growing Mistake #1
03:51 Trellised veggies inside the garden
05:27 Mistake #2
06:19 Mistake #2.5
07:06 My Favorite way to grow indeterminate tomatoes vertically
07:31 A Must Have Tool for Growing Up
09:13 Mistake #3
10:23 Growing on the garden fence
10:54 More plants growing skyward
12:13 Shaker & Spoon
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Jenna, While your enjoying that lovely cocktail, the cabbage moth is fluttering around behind you. Put down the drink and get the butterfly net!
The vertical garden looks beautiful. I grow lots of beans and squash on my fences. Nicely done with the sponsorship!
Good 👍 work!
I grow a lot in 20 and 25 gallon grow bags, I do a lot of vertical gardening.. This year has been an amazing year for gardening, a wonderful harvest….Enjoy your videos Jenna
Thank you for sharing your mistakes!! It really helps to hear your thought process. 🙏
Thank you so much for this video! I especially appreciate you sharing your mistakes!! I've been using the velcro you told us about in another video and it's been a game changer:)
I have been having great success growing my cantaloupe and watermelon up and along my perimeter fencing. Zucchini is grown vertically, also. I have several 2x4s in the ground with 2x4s across the top of them for stringing up my indeterminate tomatoes, but sometimes the stringing breaks under the weight, so this year I screwed thick bamboo posts into the top crossboard with the other end in the ground, surrounded by sturdy tomato cages. The set-up is 8 feet tall. I've had great success so far this year with that. Withstood a derecho already. I have a 20×40 raised garden bed. I have a cattle panel over the entire 20 foot wide section over the middle of the garden. As the sun crosses the sky, it eventually throws brief shade across the whole garden. I have climbing flowers growing on that cattle panel. I've already canned over 40 quart size bottles of dill and bread and butter pickles and the cucumbers are still producing prolifically. Two more weeks and I'll be making probably another 40 jars of tomato sauce.
Thanks again for another always great video. I appreciate the fact that you don't dwell on any personal problems in your videos like so many others do and that you actually teach us using some of the mistakes that you have made. I rarely watch other's videos anymore. I find yours to be genuine, well thought out, timely and pertain more to my growing zone 5b. Thank you!
You look like you have a massive garden how many hours a day do you spend in that garden and do you have help
I love growing vertically. I use cattle panels for everything. I also like to angle them about 30 degrees, which make it easier for the plant to lean, especially tomatoes, that don't have tendrils, and makes it a lot easier to harvest. I also cut cattle panels in half and made an A-frame over the pathway, just pushing the cut ends into the ground and strapping the panels together. I have done this for at least 15 years and don't have use t-posts with this method. What variety are the Zinnias in the foreground of your arched cattle panel with the volunteer squash? They are beautiful and the perfect color!!! Thanks
I'm really looking forward to more vertical gardening!
Great video. Thank you. I struggle with earwig, ants, grasshoppers. Garden not doing well. Terri from Idaho🥔
Hi Jenna! My loofah gourds are going crazy over my cattle panel trellis, but no fruit yet, not even flowers. I have 3 plants in total. Full sun, so I'm thinking nutrient issue, maybe? Might have to try those cocktails 🍸
Lol … I think that was a lot more than a drop each time lol of the coffee stuff
I wonder if zucchini & yellow squash would work that way ? I was trying to grow some large gallon squash and they all died!! I don’t know why ? I think I may have overwatered them but other stuff planted with them didn’t died. It’s like they just wilted one by one over my whole garden no matter where they were planted
these are such great tips!
Awesome! I will definately try this as it looks like a great way to conserve space in the garden. I am also going to try a Shaker & Spoon subscription, you're drink looks really tasty! Really good video, thanks a lot Jenna! 👍🌱🍹
Hey would really enjoy a video on how you keep critters from eating your garden! Your garden is so beautiful. I'm also in Ohio and have a huge bunny and squirrel population where I am at!
Love your videos! Thank you for your channel
This year I direct seeded some sugar snap peas along side my tomato starts. I was thinking that the peas would grow up the tomatoes, which they did, and be gone by mid summer. Everything worked out as plan and I got double duty from that one trellis. However, all my tomatoes had abnormal levels of blight. I really think the peas are so thick that they impede airflow. Also, when the peas died back they were difficult to remove and they left a lot of decomposing debris on my tomato plants. My take away is that this was a failure and even though I encourage myself to experiment, I certainly know enough about gardening to have thought this through.
"Pretty much just a bourbon on the rocks kinda gal" – I had a hunch! Another great video. Thanks for keeping us Zone 6 gardeners on track. We'll check out Shaker & Spoon!
I love your overalls! Where did you get those??
When do you plant your castor plants. Or do you just plant the castor beans straight in the ground
Thank you for all the interesting information
I only have one cattle panel trellis up and don’t really have space elsewhere for another. Should I be concerned about not being able to rotate crops now since I will always be growing the same vining plants up the trellis in the same spot?? My favorite thing about growing vertically this year is helping my back by not having to get down on the ground as much!!
Vertical gardening is a must for me since I am limited in space to garden due to my free range goats, pig and chickens. We put lattice on the side of our deck from raised beds below up to the raised porch plus hung mesh metal on a section of the old play set for cucumbers.
The garden fence isn’t an option since the reason for putting the fence up was to keep critters that eat things I plant away from plants. Anything that gets within nibbling distance reminds my goats and wild deer that there’s something yummy in the yard.
Your garden is looking amazing, those cucumber plants are pristine.. I need to start doing more with flowers and ornamental plants in my garden.. I really like the colors they add to yours..
I'm short on space so I grow a lot vertically, including utilizing my front fence/raised bed combo. It's made from goat panels so my watermelon, butternut squash, peas, etc grow right up it.
Love your channel and I also loved the sponsor! just purchased for a gift.
Hi Jenna. I am in LA California and I grow vertically too. Since you mentioned powdery mildy, I was wondering if there is a particular product that you find helpful . The weather here constantly causes powdery mildew on my squash, cucumbers and even bell peppers :(. I tried all sort of homemade as well as commercial products and nothing helps. Thanks.
I love love love your videos Jenna. Happy Gardening 🌱😁🌱 I would of never thought of using Velcro Tape.😲 I usually use Nylon string.
Hi Jenna. Thank you for everything. We use cattle panel trellises for cucumbers, all melons, indeterminate tomatoes, peas, beans and squash. Heavier veg takes a little extra care but is well worth the effort.
You are definitely my favorite gardening person. While listening to you I sometimes think, AH I could share this… and then you say it. LOL But come to think of it, those long cattle panels can fit in the back of a pickup truck with an 8 foot bed. There's a guy on YouTube that explains how he does it.
Excellent video as always.
1) I'd like to see a video on what happens after the harvest. I give away over 50 percent of my produce.
2) Maybe a cooking video.
3) Some electrical work. Just kidding!
Growing plants vertically really adds so much versatility to the garden and makes disease management and harvesting easier. I've been using string trellis to grow my indeterminant tomatoes with great success. Very good point you made about the need to calculate the impact of the shade that you create with vertical plantings. I'd love to use cattle panels but I don't own a pick up truck so I've been building trellises with wood frames and using re-purposed welded wire garden fencing for the trellis. Your garden looks fantastic!
Wonderful ! I do make it too it’s useful wen we don’t have so much place and it’s benefic for the plants to not being sick 👍🏻😜 good video
I'm growing in Mid Central Ohio and just found your channel 😀
Love your videos ❣️ Was wondering what you do with your trellises at the end of the growing season? What needs to be pulled off and cleared and what can stay? Thanks 👍
Jenna I just love your channel. You have such a great way of presenting information. You speak clearly. You don’t have a shaky camera from walking and talking. You don’t ‘umm’ and ‘ahh’. And most of all, I live in southwest Ohio so everything you share is applicable to me!! Thank you for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge!
Love the kitten cameo 😻
I learned the lesson of support this year haha im so excited for next year garden
Raccoons don’t climb your perimeter fence? Ours have climbed up the 2’ raised bed side and the 1’ screen on top… we are thinking we will need to resort to an electrified wire to keep them all out.
Thank you for all of the info. Side note-I love your overalls-what brand are they?
Thank you for all your information especially with freezing tomatoes. Our tomato crop was awesome and I ended up sharing with everyone. I don't know how you have time for a family and all this work but it is well received and used every year. Planting fall veggies now and if can believe it I started cucumbers early in August with crook neck squash and they are doing well. Thank you Jenna.
Where do you get the "Cork" cucumbers seeds from…
Beautiful video and good info ! Yeah I really started growing more crops vertically just in the past 2-3 years-even winter squash. Lots of benefits!
You have a very nice channel , Glad to see your work 👍👍👍🙋+ full