Vertical-Gardening

Gaining More with Less in the Vegetable Garden

October 3, 2011

Ron and Jennifer Kujawski are a father-daughter team in the garden and co-authors of the “Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season.” They cultivate a mix of raised beds and row-style gardens that cover about 10,000 square feet in a cold, short season, climate within Massachusetts. I met Ron and Jennifer [...]

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Another Trellis Design for the Veggie Garden

August 30, 2009

It seems like many of you are pretty creative when it comes to designing unique supports for tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and other climbing vegetables and fruits. Last time P.J. shared his trellising blueprint with us and today John reveals how to construct a totally different style of plant support: Hi Kenny!  You’ve been a big [...]

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Vertical Supports for Trellising Vegetables

August 25, 2009

After unveiling his impressive first vegetable garden recently, PJ received questions about the tall structures that towered over the plants and was kind enough to return and explain his veggie trellises and provide the details for constructing a similar one in your own backyard garden: Those tall things are actually my trellises for cucumbers, beans [...]

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Snap Pea Supports

April 24, 2006

Providing some type of pea support or a trellis is a good idea when growing sugar snap peas borne on short to medium sized vines. And a strong support system is essential if you choose to grow the taller snow pea and green shell pea varieties.

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