hey guys I'm Angela with Green acre homestead today we're going to be down
in the lower garden and we're gonna do some trellising maybe a little bit of
weeding and then we're gonna put down just a little bit of fertilizer because
it's not been done in a really long time so the trellis we're going to use this
year is called Horton Nova trellis it actually is the best we've used so far
especially for green beans and stuff and there's probably going to be a link
below as well for our old trellis style that we did but we wanted to something a
little bit easier this year and not quite as I don't know difficult to put
up I have to say this is the most simple trellis that we've designed that we've
put up thus far and our about 15 years of gardening
did we get by with three you're doing it for I don't know we really should do
but since we got limited Heights just do it to the top of the post
between Oh
no just long as it stops goodness that's what's gonna hold away
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I have to say this is the most simple trellis that we've designed that we've
put up thus far in our about 15 years of gardening all you have to do is do T
post on the ends kind of in the middle to hold it up and then we just zip tied
it to the T post now we could have done higher T posts but we decided to reuse
what we already have instead of going out and buying new T posts which can get
really pricey so these are a little bit shorter than we would normally do it
probably could have gone about 8 to 12 inches taller but it looks like it'll
work really well I did go through and cut the excess off the bottom I didn't
want it to get kind of messed up with weeds and just get tangled if we came
through with a weed eater or something to get the weeds up and it cut really
easily with a pair of just sharp scissors so this is the first time this
lower garden has been used in probably 3 or 4 years has just been grown up with
weeds and grasses that type of thing so we did need to add a little bit of
fertilizer if we could kind of tell that some of the plants that are down here
kind of have the yellow leaf look and that type thing so we just added some
triple 19 to it just to add in a little bit to help them get a little boost
we can already tell that the weeds are going to be taking over pretty quickly
down here I know there's a lot of Virginia Creeper which if you have a
piece of root this big that's still in the ground it'll sprout another plant so
we're going to be fighting that one and several they're just weedy things we are
using our oscillating hoe from Hoss tool on the wheel hoe that seems to be
working pretty well but in the actual Hills we're going to have to hand weed
those and see if we can keep on top of it at least until the plants get big
enough that it won't really matter as much some of the plants do look like
they have some insect activity going on so we are going to have to find
something we try to go the more organic natural route to keep these under
control because we don't want to lose everything that we have down here I know
that in our area we have a lot of problems with Mexican bean beetles and
Japanese beetles especially with the green beans so we're going to try and
get on top of that as quickly quickly as we can and then stay on top of it thanks
guys for watching and coming along with us as we do a little bit more work and
stay tuned as we see our garden grow and hopefully produce lots of food that we
can then process and keep and eat the best part of all and as always leave a
comment we'd love to read them if even if we can't comment back on all of them
and we will see you guys next time bye