Space Saving EASY Climb Trellis || Cucumber & Asparagus Pea
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2024
- In this video, I show you how to build a lean 2 space-saving trellis for a large raised garden bed to grow cucumbers and asparagus peas over 6 months of constant cropping and growing!
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G'day Everyone, I thought I was going to get some good weather for a change, but alas, it's raining again in this video, too! I shouldn't complain... I would rather the backyard be green than brown! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video. Feel free to leave a comment, and I'll answer as many as I can. Thanks for your support! Cheers :)
hi mark, how about a brief video explaining you're now using jellysmack to manage your FB account as many still dont believe it and continue to rant about your page being hacked
I love this lean-to trellis!
My experience here in the hot, humid southern US has been that vertical and diagonal trellises both work very well for cucumbers, even for so called bush types. They seem to keep climbing all season long and don’t suffer as much sunburn and wilt as vines on the ground. Have used welded wire and kennel panels that were handy, but am about to get some cattle panels that are flexible but still self supporting and have larger gaps so fruit doesn’t get bound up in the wire.
@Obliv69 until i see a video of himself mentioning it the page is hacked. He makes videos. Makes sense that he would make an explainer video. I have no doubt if it wasn't hacked, prior to the change he would have made a video announcing the change. All we've had so far are some written posts that could have been written by anyone. Written posts on Facebook... he's never posted a written post on Facebook ever
Great idea. Hey and I ordered some of the old style birdie beds when they had that promo a few months back and used your discount code. Good savings!
I’m married to an Aussie from Perth! We live in Marshfield, Missouri and I’m so happy I found your channel…you’ve already helped me so much ❤
In my country (Malaysia), we call this asparagus pea as 'kacang botor', one of popular 'ulam' (vegie that eaten raw) in our daily menu, you can also cooked it by blanch, stir-fry with garlic or served as a quick salad 😊
Ulam = salad
If you're not familiar, you can make a cucumber lemonade too. You juice the cucumbers then mix it in equal parts with lemon juice, then sweeten & dilute to your taste :)
No, I didn't know that recipe! Thank you :)
I've never heard of that but it sounds refreshing on a hot summer day.
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cucumba
🍉 Asparagus pea is a beautiful flowering plant originating from the middle east, where locals will call it Palestinian Lotus. The latin name is lotus tetragonolobus. 🍉 In fact for most viewers the name "asparagus pea" creates confusion, because in contrast to peas, these are cold fearing heat loving plants! ❤
Mark, and Family. How wonderful that you can enjoys natures bounty daily. Hard work and study pays off. You are seriously one of the best top 10 (Out of THOUSANDS) " of Gardening/Growing Veg channels on YT. Great job.
Thank you for your kind words and feedback 👍🙂
2.4 MILLION subs, and "Growing" can't be wrong eh!..... Keep well you and yours. :)@@Selfsufficientme
What happened to your FB channel? Have you been hacked or did you really hire a company to manage your page? I hope you can fix it. We all enjoy your videos.. not the random spam that is currently being posted on it.@@Selfsufficientme
Keep and plant those hybrid cucumber seeds. Not all of the plants grown from them will be true to type, but if you keep saving seeds from the ones that are, you will eventually get a stable variety that is true to type. Given your description of its growing habits and flavor, many gardeners would be interested in it. I, for one, want to be able to grow Valencia's Cucumber in my garden.
Will do! Thanks for the suggestion :)
I did that with tomatoes few years back and they are my best cropping tomatoes ever. I just keep saving the seeds each year and they are getting better and better.
They resort back to original genetics after a round or 2
I enjoy buying multiple varieties of one vegetable, and then I save the seeds of the produce I liked the most. Not all the crosses make viable seeds, but if you're saving seeds from the best of each variety, you'll be getting a mix of crosses and some of them will definitely be viable! Rinse and repeat over the years, occasionally toss in a new variety for fresh genetics, and you'll end up with produce you've hand selected for the traits you want, but they'll also be better adapted to your specific environment and gardening habits!
@@joemamma8633 depends on the history of how a particular produce was created and the genetic complexity (thus stability) of a plant.
Heirloom/open pollenation vegetables and some fruits, can occasionally cross pollenate successfully and produce viable seeds with attributes of both parent plants.
The easiest vegetable to do this with is tomatoes, but my Mum cross bred Capsicums and chilli's one year by accident, and for fun we kept the seeds and replanted. To my surprise the seeds were not only viable, but the 'fruit' was true to the hybrid we'd harvested them from. We repeated this for a few years, just resowing seeds from last season and they stayed true to type... Well, until mum planted a new batch of capsicum and they cross pollinated again. 😂
You couldn't repeat this process with an apple, since modern apples are the process of varying propergation techniques that focus on the fruit, not the seeds viability or genetic stability. Apples also (buy n large) cannot self pollenate which makes them incredibly genetically varied and thus considered genetically unstable. You plant 100 apples seeds, and you will end up with 100 trees all with different genetics, different fruits and different growing habits due to that genetic variability.
In comparisons, tomatoes are genetically very simple. Especially Heirlooms, that have been maintained as true to type through self pollination for many generations. The simplicity of their genetics means we can selectively or randomly hybridise them with mostly predictable results. Hell, a botonist in a lab could probably make a close to 100% prediction on the outcome of crossing 2 specific tomato varieties. This ability to easily cross plants with predictable results is one of the reasons there's over 10 thousand recognized varieties of edible tomato, with some sources citing a up to 19 thousand varieties. This of course doesn't include any backyard cultivars that have been created by accident or by someone like myself just having fun seeing what happens.
Meanwhile with apples, they've identified over 30 thousand varieties! However only 7500 are considered useful and worth growing. I cannot find a break down, or but I believe that 7500 includes not only table apples (fruit you'd eat raw), but Cider apples for alcohol making and root stock too. Root stock varieties of course, are used purely to host table and cider apples, the fruit of the root stock often considered not edible or worth noting. So despite there being vastly more apple varieties, only a small number are actually farmed intentionally, and of those farmed, some aren't even used for food but as root stock. No one is accidentally creating a new variety of edible apple in their backyard as most seeds are going to produce the small often bitter or overly tart "crab apple", which is just the umbrella term for apples considered unfarmable. There are some people crazy enough to intentionally try make new edible apple varieties... But success is something that usually comes with corporate funding and access to lab equipment.
Tl/Dr?
Complex genetics from inability to self pollinate = too hard to hybridise and make something edible. Most seedlings won't be "true to type"
Simple genetics from lots of self pollination = backyard hybridization is possible, and you can even create new strains with viable seeds.
You know that last video you did where you made an improv dinner with crops you found was really cool. I wouldn’t mind cooking and food prep videos going further, I’m curious about the details of how you prepare and fully utilize all the food you grow! 😁
I accidently did something similar with pole beans a few years ago. My trellis wasn't strong enough and I braced it up with small poles. I found I could lower the top down by moving the pole bottom out and pick the beans then put it back. Made a better trellis the next year but made it so I can lower it on purpose. Great channel. Watching from NC in the US. 👍
what you have there is the beginnings of a landrace, cucumber. You should look into Landrace Gardening to see if you can produce crops better adapted to your area, like that cucumber is Happy Gardening!
Hello, my farm also grows this fruit
Thats why I am breeding a landrace squash I live in zone 6b so it gets cold here but I love long season japanese squash like tetsukabuto kabocha black futsu and others can wait to see the crosses
Im really leaning 2 this channel for gardening tips and advice
9 out of 10 dads approve this joke...
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@@snowstrobe when does a dad joke become a dad joke
When it becomes apparent
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Perfect timing. I am finishing up the construction of my raised beds. My wife and I are older and the thought of not bending over too much is good. I will use your idea of a lean to trellis to grow my cucumbers. That will leave more room for something else. Cheers.
"Life finds a way" - Thought of the same phrase from JP!
Thank You Mark for all of your work and dedication. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and your family. And be gracious unto you and give you piece. Cheers!!
I'm from Vancouver Canada and have never even heard of asparagus pea. Such a neat looking veg.
Always a pleasure to feel your contagious enthusiasm!
You brighten up our days.
LOVE from Montréal!
I'd never heard of asparagus pea before, I may have to try growing some. I'm in central Arizona USA, we get a bit over 12 inches of precipitation per year. Last year was a bit below average with 11.27 inches, we had a dryer than usual monsoon season. Between the heat, blazing sun and little precip, growing here is challenging to say the least. Even though we are worlds apart, literally and in climate, you are by far my favorite gardening channel. I learn about so many plants I'd never heard of and get so many ideas for my garden.
G'day Randy, I appreciate the feedback, and I'm glad you have accepted the challenge of growing in your harsh climate. I imagine the satisfaction you get from working out how and what to grow and then being successful would be great. Cheers :)
I grew those in central Texas and they loved the heat and humidity. They were also hard as wood, so I didn’t eat them. Maybe like okra, I should’ve picked them small?
Great idea with the trellis such a beautiful garden.
For years my husband and I wanted a new bed. We got one last fall, and instead of throwing out the old metal platform we split it in half (a king size becomes two twin basically), and because it already folds in half the way it was built, we used it for two 'pyramid' style trellises for our sweet pea bed! It seems to be working great so far! Here in deep south Mississippi, sweet pea season is already going on, by early May it will be too hot for them. I'm trying to figure out what type of plant I could use them for in fall now lol. They should last several years!
Cucamelon like it hot? Melons? Sweetcorn for sure? Some summer squash? Rosemary? Any other suggestions for heat loving plants ?…!
What a top way to repurpose/upcycle! Maybe asparagus pea to follow the sweet pea? Cheers :)
1. That's such a clever trellis for cukes!
2. Omg, I've never seen asparagus peas in my life, but they're absolutely going into our rotation ASAP.
3. I also thought "Life finds a way" and was delighted you quoted one of the best characters of all time.
Thank you for another entertaining and informative video, Mark. You encourage so many people to garden and it's awesome to see. :)
G'day Rina, thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, I love that quote, "Life finds a way." Lol, it's one of my fav movies, and it's so true... 👍🙂
@@Selfsufficientme It still holds the record for the movie I saw most on the big screen-- 11 times lol. Ah, I miss dollar theaters.
I just love your videos. Even though your climate is a lot warmer than mine, I still learn a lot. Thank you.
Those asparagus peas are wild looking.
Very nice Mark, I am about to plant Cucumbers. I eat one everyday.
Now I think I've seen it all 😮. Mark you are in a class of your own 😊
Fascinating. Had never heard of asparagus pea. Another advantage of growing your own is being able to explore options other than the limited range in our shops. Love the leaning trellis idea.
Greetings from North Florida! I've done the Wing Beans here and they grow like crazy in the summer heat when few things will, that's for sure!
I am also in N Florida, and was just thinking I would look them up on IFAS to see if they would grow here! Do you recall where you bought your seed?
@@TW-gb6mhBaker Creek seeds out of Missouri.
@@georgetuider654 Thank you! I will order them for this summer!
I bought my raised bed two years ago based on your videos! I’ve been trying to figure out how to trellis things better, this is such a great idea!
Going to try this for our upcoming growing season (I’m in northern Midwest US)
Thanks again Mark. Always easy to watch and fun to learn.
Great idea with that trellis. Definitely going to give that a try 👍
For any apartment dwellers/container growers.. I rigged up something similar for my cukes on the patio food forest 😁.. if you plant cukes in a milk crate, you can use zip ties to hold 6-8ft stakes at an angle and put mesh or twine between them.. then cukes don’t HAVE to go up, they just go over..
depending on the variety, I’ve also used stakes in all 4 corners of the milk crate and twine around and between, and the better climbing types were perfectly fine without much assistance.. and grew like champs 😬.. made some honking big cukes 👍 lol
I have a dedicated crate at this point, so I don’t have to keep attaching or removing the zip tied stakes.. works great for four years straight now..
It depends on what ability to “sprawl” you have.. in the small ‘urban’ spaces, vertical use is necessary, so anything that leans too far can eat up precious real estate.. but it’s entirely doable along the edge or if it’s elevated enough to walk under..
Ive managed to get the beans trellised high enough to walk underneath.. but they climb better 😅 lol
It's really interesting to watch your current videos because i live in the northern hemisphere, so the seasons are opposite. It feels like im seeing into the future of what my season will look like. Lovely trellis idea, gorgeous asparagus pea plant.
I like your puppy dog in the background!
Great to see you in your garden
This video came right on time! Just got my seeds started and wasn't sure how I was going to keep my dad from mowing over the cucumbers. Thanks so much for the idea and tips!
Hello from New Jersey. I love your videos and your brilliant ideas for growing a vegetable garden. Thank you
That's pretty funny and very interesting that you unintentionally created a new type of hybrid cucumber. Nature is so creative and amazing.
you are an excellent teacher and inspiration, thank you
Great idea Mark! This will make it easier for the kids to pick too! Gotta get them involved
Great way to extend limited space. Thank you, Mark 😊 I'm putting Asparagus Pea on my list to grow. Here in Coastal SC, USA, our summers get brutal hot and humid. Be great to have an additional food growing
I saw this trellis in one of your other more recent videos and thought it was brilliant! I immediately told myself I'm doing one in one of my raised beds this year and am super happy to see you made a video about it!
We definitely have some heat with our Texas Summers. The Armenian cucumber seems to produce well once the heat arrives.
such a cool video -i loved to see the hybrid cucumber that grew!
Raining is Blessing falling from Above
Yum I had those those beans in Thailand. Might have to plant some!
Hi..... Mark nice to see you Love watching your video beautiful great good job I really enjoy watching your video growing vegetables fruits and so many etc.. bye
That sounds like a good cucumber.
I always learn so much from your videos!
I found the asparagus peas interesting. We have hot humid summers here in Georgia, USA and I may have to try these.
After looking up asparagus peas I found that they should be eaten when only about an inch long and that they aren't particularly tasty. Cardboard-like was mentioned. How do you eat them Mark?
Brilliant Idea Mark! Now that is thinking "outside of the box"..... or "outside of the Raised Garden Bed" !!!! Thanks for the idea...I will be stealing it this week. :')
Mark! As always, excellent! Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for these amazing videos and ideas! As I'm starting this channel in the northern Midwest USA, I'll be using-most- of the things you show. I can't wait to use this in my garden and channel! You're the best!
Love the idea of a leaning trellis. Congrats on an amazing harvest!
I'm here for the equal part gardening tips and equal part dad jokes.
Can you send some of that rain down to Tassie. Its been so dry, no grass for the native animals and they have eaten EVERYTHING in my raised beds. I did get three cucumbers and four butternut pumpkins. So have given up for now and will try again after we get back from Qld end of June. Oh the little buggers even came into our carport and ate my broad bean seedlings. Anyway love your programme. Cheers
You are getting so good with your videos 😊
Very cool awning style trellis!
Loved seeing you on Gardening Australia. I enjoy your work.
Great idea how to grow cucumbers 😎
For Cucumbers There was a quote ( The More You Pick The More You Get).
David the Good always talks about "Landrace" varieties of veggies. Basically your hybrid cucumbers are a mix of several dnas that did best in your area and thus are now sort of built to thrive in your yard. Look into Landrace Gardening. Im sure youd be interested
Love this idea Mark , we are for sure going to give this a go in our garden !
Ooh thanks! You answered why my friend couldn’t get any results with her winged beans. (She lives in a colder area.) she’s going to try again with a heated mat for germination!
Very cool! Thanks much. I think I'll try a sort of leaning trellis this year. Cheers!
I had cucumbers all summer in full sun this year. Lots of rain, drip irrigation (when it wasn't raining) and single stem growing method did the trick I think.
Hi Mark - I'm in UK and my cucumbers have just germinated into little seedlings. Last year I grew them outside but this year I have a greenhouse - so they should do much better in there. It's great to see the weird hybrids that grew by themselves - that makes gardening really fun sometimes doesn't it?
I don't think we have the weather here for asparagus peas but nice to see them looking so tasty.
Keep up the great work your videos are always very informative. 👍😊
You are always inspiring. Looking forward to start this year's garden at our new home.
Last year was my first adventure into unintended cross pollination. My oldest boy planted some ghost peppers three raised beds over from my green peppers. Fast forward a bit, and my pasta sauce (tomatoes, onion and green peppers) had quite a bit more zip than expected. I wish I had saved some of the seeds, but wasn't aware of what I had until I cracked open the first jar of sauce in early fall.
Oh my goodness 10 plants are 5 to many. I would need to give away or sell. I love a good cucumber salad but I already have my limit of canned pickles. You go Mark. I do love your leaning trellis idea. I'm using that one. Thanks.
Hi Mark, as far as I am aware Asparagus Peas (Tetragonolobus purpureus or Lotus tetragonobolus) and Winged Beans (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) are different plants. The reason I am pointing this out is that a few years ago I planted Asparagus Pea after reading how delicious they are (tasting like asparagus), until I found a UA-cam video where someone described the taste as cardboard-like. Unfortunately, when I tried my Asparagus Peas I had to agree. I might still plant them as a cover crop to be cut down but not for eating...
my wife would love that hybrid cucumber
Very entertaining. Never heard of asparagus pea...interesting.
I love poona keera cucumbers they're my absolute favorite. So glad to see them get highlighted!
Hi Mark loved this episode, just got my asparagus pea seedlings up . really looking forward to seeing them grow this season … hope I get as many as you 😀
Thanks Mark 🥒
Amazing idea! Thanks for sharing!
Love this channel
Hi Mark, if you are running out of ideas, i'd like to see a weekly vlog of what you are currently planting for Autumn (raw and unedited is fine too). I'm in Joburg, South Africa, which is just a few degrees south of Brisbane, so similar climate. Planting for Winter, soil amendments etc. would be interesting to see. Thanks. If you're bored.
Brilliant! Your lean-to trellis us a clever idea & may be just the solution I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & insights.
Fabulous idea on the trellis, Mark. I had a terrible cucumber season this summer, ended up taking them out. Sadly no cucumber relish this year unfortunately. Next spring will definitely be trying the trellis idea for cucumbers. I have seen the asparagus pea in seed catalogues, never knew what they were until now. Most definitely will give them a go for the spring summer garden 24/25.
Great set up!
Well thought out! Love it!!
Very good technique. Just planted cucumber seeds the other day. Going to do something like this. 👍🏼
Thank you, Mark! What wonderful ideas! Will check to see if they will grow in my area! Shalom!
Thanks again Mark love the trellis will try that :)
Until watching this video I had never heard of the asparagus pea. I think it would do well here in central Louisiana.
Great episode thanks
Asparagus pea is one of my favorite vegetables, just slice them into really thin pieces, then saute them with garlic and onion, salt and pepper, and here in the Philippines we put coconut milk in there but it's not a requirement 😅 if you just like to try it with coconut milk
From Ipswich mate and am so jealous of the amount of rain you get up there...living in the Ippy dome see's a fair amount go around us.
I recently built my own raised beds and used concrete reo in a similar fashion...my cucumbers after being over fertilised by me have been doing much better my second go around.
Issue I have is fruit flies which have been destroying my tomato crops.
Wouldn't mind a vid on this problem in Australia as it seems to be a bigger issue for everyone.
Never heard of asparagus pea before. We live in the Pacific Northwest of the US in Oregon so I don't know if it even grows here. It looks very intriguing, but I'm never even seen the seeds listed for sale here. But I do have the perfect spot for such a lean-to trellis in our garden, so I think I'll give it a try. I love growing cucumbers as well as Minnesota midget cantaloupe, and believe those two would make a perfect succession planting for that!
Thank you friend. Much respect from central VA USA.
Will be making your trellis next week, great idea
I used my cucumbers to make smoothies with mint and stevia and powdered skim milk.
Just one adopted pathetic weedy looking cucumber seedling on its last legs (roots) - 50c in the needs rehabilitation section of the local hardware - and the thing took off.
You can never have too many cucumbers.....until you do
You are lucky we here in western Canada we get 8 months of cold winter -40 to +17 C we get Chinooks, about 2 months of shitty weather and 2 months of rain mixed with some hot days. Cheers
I love your channel! ❤
Coolies nice garden me to can't wait till winter we had a terrible summer over here!
Very wise idea. I'm going to try that!
Very CLEVER!
Wondering if you’re going to try to save seeds from your new variety of cucumbers. Wondering if you winter over anything. My kale survived the winter here in Ohio. Well one plant. Love the videos.
Is this cucumber a particularly heat-tolerant cucumber?
That's amazing The strength to withstand that heat and increase
I harvested a small salad today, but I cut my finger a little with the scissors.
Harvesting time is fun, but there are times when I get unexpected cuts.
Even though the scissors are easy to hold, when washing
Everyone, please be careful not to get injured.