vertical gardening (outside)

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  1. Michaelangelica

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    Since this covers verticle gardening, can anyone recomend a tree whos branches could easily cradle a watermelon. I was thinking something like a juniper, but would prefer something that produces as well. Growing watermelon in a tree seems to have anti-rot written all over it. Is this faulty thinking?
     
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    Really interesting idea. My first thought was using a well developed peach tree but then I wondered how much the watermelon would restrict the crop of peaches. Perhaps a non-producer is better in the interest of getting maximum food production. What about certain nut trees? Are there any that do most of their work in the cooler seasons where watermelons wont be around?
     
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    I went for the juniper because of the limbs growing at an upward/outward angle, this will cause the melon to roll in toward the trunk as it gets heavier. But any tree with that characteristic would work I think. I was also thinking of growing Cantalope up my fig tree limbs to make them stronger as they mature. The fig trees here tend to break off from produce weight later in life. I figure if the wind can make a stem stronger/stiffer then weights can do the same for the fig.
     
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    Weight training your fruit trees with melons. This just gets better and better!
     
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    Here is my strawberry tower it produced well for a few months but eventually strangled itself
    too many plants too small holes maybe too small pipe I saved one runner and have it in the ground ready for V2
    The passionfruit is attached to the wall using 4 eye hooks drilled into the bricks using some spaghetti (plastic plug) and black nylon rope strung into a criss cross pattern
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    What a great way to recycle. Kudos Grass
     
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    Seriously?? Are you sure that's not photoshopped?
     
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    Clearly off topic... it's horizontal
     
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    My ideas

    Having very little space...i have to grow most of my plants vertically. I havnt looked at any fancy systems... I just have a fence, on which the previous owner has put lots of strong nails at intervals. Then he just wound wire around and between then in a pattern. Im grownig what i can on these.

    So far, i have beans, peas with extra string holding them, butternut pumpkin, passionfruit, grapes, new cucumber, tomatos, capsicum, support for the corn.

    Im thinking about trying a rockmellon or watermellon next year as well, however they might be a little big for the fence.

    Other verticle things i did was hanging baskets, the water from the. Drips into the pots below to save water. The plants below, tomatos, climb up the poles supporting the porch.

    Other than that... I have seen somebody nail old plastic flower pots to a fence in a pattern where they all have bits exposed the the top of the fence. (sorry hard to explain) then they ran a drip hose along the top of the fence and all the water ran into the pots. Water came out the bottom of the pots and into the next ones below. Other than thatt you could just water them.

    Good luck
     
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    steel reinforcing mesh ( used in concrete ) stood up against a fence or posts etc. works well and will last a very long time
     
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    Nods to the steel reinforcing mesh, I have some against the water tank. It works very well.
     
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    What another, mobile gardens thread ? :)
     

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