hey everybody sam here and angela and we're green acre homestead
so today we are going to be showing you how we trellis our zucchini
and our squash what trellis your zucchini and squash
yes that's ludicrous you don't do that stuff it won't work
it actually does work i don't know i'll have to see it to believe it
well then let's go all right put me to work huh
what are we using for trellises these magical galvanized poles that just
popped up in the garden down here yeah i guess this is what we'll have to
use just so happens that since gardening is super special or popular this year
i'm about to take that pipe to the face
you can't find garden stakes anywhere yep
so we um i mean nope you're agreeing with me yes so sam had
the idea of using metal conduit i did so metal conduit is what we have
it is a small diameter it's very affordable
and it should last more than a couple of years down here for garden use so
hey when when that's the way i roll so as long as it works because it is a
smooth side i don't know that it'll make a big
difference um the other green poles that you can get at like
your big box stores and stuff they bend really easy and break yeah so
that's one of the things i look forward to with these
is they shouldn't bend and break these are some
beef and trellis poles at least we sure hope so
basically all you have to do is put these in like a couple of inches
from the base of the stem you just don't want to get it into the
root where it kills the plant and then put it in a good bit so it's
not going to wiggle a whole lot so he went ahead and did that to these
four we have another three to go and then we can tie them to the
post with some twine that we brought with us
so i am using some regular jute twine we already had it on hand i know there
are probably better products out there but
this is what we had and we like to do that use what we have on hand
that one might need two strings
so
i got to stop you working for a second i got a question okay that one's really
really bent over is it going to fix itself or what's up
with that one because you look like you just turned it on its head
yeah yeah um that's just how the leaves were situated
so whenever we stood it up everything's going to the side
but it should fix itself and within about a day
all right one day and counting we'll see i don't doubt you i know you're right
so
so pretty easy down here yes pretty easy process this is lower garden
um ready to hit up top and do the top garden yep they have already been
trellised but we get to show you how we continue the process yeah i would
say the top garden you're going to see this
but like it's about a month ahead maybe yeah farther along
let's go to the future all right
so in doing the trellising of the zucchini and squash
you can take up all take off all the leaves up until
the zucchini that's growing so that's actually a lot of leaves you can take
off since they're so big that still the
plant still gets what it needs and it keeps away pests and keeps the
mildew away right here is the bottom of where the
new zucchini are coming in so we can technically take off all of
these leaves from there down
so you kind of have to weave it around
the zucchini and the leaves and the blooms
and you can kind of watch it pull it up
pulling it up like that it makes the fruit vegetables whatever you want to
call it squash bikinis it makes them a lot more visible so
you're not hunting everywhere now if we could just find something that
works like that for cucumbers because you can't seem to find all of
them another benefit of cutting the lower branches off stems
whatever you want to call it is it allows pollinators to come in
a lot easier they can see the blooms better
and get more access which means more vegetables which means more
vegetables yeah so at this point i just have to repeat
what i did i have some more zucchini here and then
a row of squash and just pick up everything cut off the
bottoms and harvest some zucchini and squash
do
so while it may sound kind of weird to trellis your squash and zucchini
we've actually seen that it makes them grow a lot better
and a lot healthier so maybe next time that you
grow some next year this season whenever you should give it a try and see how it
does thanks for coming along as we did all the work in the garden
today and if you have any questions or comments
please leave them below we love to read them
even if we don't get to comment back on all of them otherwise we'll see you guys
next time on the homestead
are you in this video can i be in it i guess if you want to be i do okay i
can't be working i'll put you to work hey if i do go time
i get show time
okay like if i go to work i get to whatever you get to be seen
get to be seen and not heard wait what who wrote those rules
zucchini
come along next time as we i don't know
so guys this is the next day after we were down here shooting the video
for our welcome to the jungle crazy lower garden
cleanup and you can see these rows are cleaned up very well
that haas tools wheel hoe does great that oscillating hoe blade cuts the
roots cuts the weeds and everything and really leaves them looking good
especially the next day so i want to give you a little bit of a view here
and a little bit of behind the scenes of how things work out reality wise versus
youtube video wise
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