Alright!
This is John Kohler with Growing Your Greens and growingyourgreens.com.
Today what we’re looking at is the back fence of my property.
And you could kind of see what it was.
It was basically a red wood fence that my neighbor put up and I the side of the fence
without the fence board so it actually was in set, I don’t know if you can really see
it now.
So things could kind of get in there and so what we did was actually we put up these refencing
material.
It’s approximately I don’t know 20 to 25 dollars for a 16 foot section at your local
home improvement store.
So we put that up against the back wall and then what we did you know to maximize the
growing space and to make it look real pretty, is we put this you know once again the nylon
trellis material.
So it’s basically a nylon trellis material.
It’s really strong and we put it off like on these cedar wood standoffs.
You could see where we attached that to a cedar wood standoff to give it some space
behind so you know we could you know my fingers could fit behind but more than that also plants
and stems could fit behind.
So you could see kinda like how we weaved it up here.
We have several things growing over here.
We have actually a winter squash growing and actually here’s a good winter squash here.
This is spaghetti squash here just hanging off the nylon trellis.
You could see how we wrapped the trellis material around the stem of the plant, it goes up and
you know I mean this guy is man that’s definitely about 5 pounds.
You know but it’s hanging alright.
The trellis is doing good you could see the trellis kind of getting weighed down but you
know this stuff is real strong it’s nylon doing real good.
So we come back maybe once a week and just you know train the vines up to keep growing
up the trellis instead of out into the walkway and pathway.
Besides the winter squash, I think we also have some melons and you could see some of
the melons starting to put on some fruit there.
And I think we also did a cucumber plant or two just for fun.
But mostly this is for winter squash I think we planted mostly spaghetti squash, butternut
squash and a acorn squash or two.
And you can see here I have some storage in the back with these sheds so you know it’s
a pretty tight fit.
We just left enough for a walkway and we’re gonna actually plan out some things here in
the shaded areas later on.
The goal is to have some fruit trees you know every 6 feet and then maybe some kind of shrub
in between the big fruit trees but meanwhile, we wanted to get something growing on this
back fence and I think this looks really beautiful here with all this greenery.
You know just along the fence filling in and basically using otherwise wasted space so
definitely you know vertically gardening is the way to go.
Here’s another spaghetti squash here that’s actually getting quite big, real big.
And even in the shaded area back here where I’m at now behind one of these sheds you
know the plants aren’t quite doing as well but you know what’s they get up and grow
up higher up to the trellis I mean now most of the green growth his actually up really
high and it’s actually in the sun.
So it’s doing real well and hopefully it will have a bunch of winter squash here for
the winter.
Here’s one that’s just starting to grow right there, and the flower.
And also the flowers are edible on the winter squash I ate on the other day and it wasn’t
that tasty but edible nonetheless.
I definitely like the blossoms of the summer squash much much better.
So here’s some beautiful blossoms I mean look at these beautiful blossoms there.
O gorgeous.
Alright.
So that’s John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com and remember you can grow your own greens.