Vertical Gardening - How to Build a Teepee Trellis & Save Space
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2024
- Learn vertical gardening with how to build a teepee trellis. I show you our favorite method of constructing an easily teepee trellis for green beans with this simple bean trellis DIY for your vegetable garden. Teepee trellis for peas is also great option though we use ours for our pole beans. 👇👇👇 Click show more for resources and free planting guide
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Are you growing any vertical crops? If so, what kind and what trellis system do you like best for beans and peas? Did you snag the freebie here, my seasonal planting guide? melissaknorris.com/seasonalplantingguide/
We use cattle panels. We have arched them over raised beds, and we have used them on the ground (standing them up by wiring them to to metal fence posts). Definitely recommend trellising for beans and peas and cucumbers. I'm going to try luffa gourds this year too. I do like the look of teepees - maybe someday!
@@MsJohnBarleycorn let me know how the luffa turns out, I haven't done those yet!
We are growing peas vertically. Our south fence is metal panel so they climb that. Id like to grow squash vertically at some point but we just haven’t gotten the setup yet. I like the idea of the teepee but we are in a dry climate so we have to irrigate everything or it would die. Rows and ditches for water work best for us.
@@MsJohnBarleycorn have you done the luffa yet? I have seeds and want to plant but need to research best place, etc... Thanks!
@@kathybaker1926 - My experience with the luffa this year (I'm in Iowa - Zone 5a): I planted the seeds directly in the ground in mid-May. The vines have grown profusely. I have had to cut them back several times so they don't take over the entire garden. They make a great screen, and will need a strong support. The cattle panel anchored in the ground with the metal fence posts has worked well - standing up to some gusty storms we have had this summer. We noticed that we haven't had as many blossoms as you'd think - it's like they have put all their energy into vining out. I'm not sure there is any fruit on our vines. They are so thick - it's possible there is one or two buried, but I doubt it! I have since learned that they have a really long growing season (200 frost free days). So next year, I'm going to start them indoors early and transplant - and plant less of them!
I literally have barely any money to vegetable garden so I went to my step dads place and cut some pine tree branches off and tied them together for my pole beans
Yep. Works great. Can even use straight saplings like poplar that have been cleared out for the poles.
We use cattle panels, but they are supported by regular wooden fence posts with gate hinge screws so that the panels are resting directly on the screws. That puts the bottom of the panel above the ground, making it easier to get to any weeds coming up - it also increases the usable height, although the beans usually need to be trained to "jump" the gap between the ground and the bottom of the panel.
Thanks nice to see you are well. We have been gardening in tires works pretty good. God Bless you and your family
T-posts are the best! So many uses on the farm. I use bamboo and cedar 1x1 posts that my dad ripped down on his table saw for me.
Yes, t-posts, bailing twine and duct tape can pretty much run a farm, lol
And zip ties!
Amazing job with the teepee trellis..
Note: Your in fantastic shape after 20 yrs on the Homestead !! keep up the great work !!
I am engaged to a Filipina. I will be growing adobong beans (similar to American asparagus beans only they are red), ube, sayote and traditional American stuff like cucumbers. I am going vertically as much as I can this year.
Thank you for the video. I purchased my supplies for constructing the teepees for my pole beans but wasn’t sure exactly how to construct it. Your video helped me tremendously!
Enjoy your thoughts. We live in northern Alberta. We use hog panels for our peas that are hung on rebar with half of a chain link as the hook. Great for being able to reach through to pick and more rigid than chicken wire . We use the same idea for cucumbers and squash. For pole beans we took 2 x 20' rebar bent into a wide u shape and stick them into the ground. Makes a 4 legged teepee with the ridges so the beans won't slip and there's plenty of growing height. This works well for snap peas too.
Your creative ideas is highly appreciated. Thank you so much for sharing .
Hi Melissa, I found your channel yesterday, and I am so happy I did. Almost everything Im looking to do, you have an awesome video on it. Thank you so much for all the great content.
I have peas broad beans & squash & grapevines. I've planted corn & sunflowers in amongst broad beans & squash.
We also use cattle panels and 3 t- posts for each panel.
I have a few vertical setups. I have one bed along a 7 ft tall fence (bed is raised 1ft so that gives 6 feet to grow), which has tomatoes at the front and pole beans at the back, and twine attached to the fence and tomato cages for the pole beans to climb onto. The pole beans reached the top about a month after sprouting so now I'm training them horizontally. Since I'm barely a month in, I wonder how they'll look in September...
Then there's a bed perpendicular to the fence where I put a small tree trunk in the ground at the end of the bed and connected twine between the trunk and fence so that it forms a grid the same height as the fence. I have cucumbers, pole beans and sunflowers climbing there. The pole beans are wrapping around the cucumbers and twine, so they're helping hold the cucumbers in place.
And I also have an a-frame I built out of large branches and scrap wood and twine that I'll be using for my cantaloupes. I might get some cucamelons going up that a-frame too. Or maybe more pole beans.
I'm also considering building a vertical structure for my Black Beauty watermelons since those are only 4-5 lbs. And maybe for my butternut squash. And maybe for a fall crop of peas. And maybe for cucamelons in another area...
It's my first year planting a lot of these things and I'm coming to realize that pole beans grow really fast. If you're doing the 3 sisters method for example, you should probably give your corn a 1 month headstart over the pole beans, especially since the pole beans seem like they get still get started fine in the partial shade of an older corn plant and catch up soon enough. I'm not growing corn but I do have the pole beans growing up the cucumbers, tomatoes, sunflowers, and will also have some growing up on okra, so those are all kinda the same idea. Could also try the same with sorghum or amaranth. But I think with all those, you want to give the plants with thicker stems an approx 1 month headstart over the pole beans. Maybe have bush beans at the base if you want an earlier harvest of green beans, or plant an early harvest of pole beans at the base of your pea trellis (since peas will start dying off from the heat right as the pole beans take over).
This looks like the very best method, well anchored against any wind but I am gardening in a community box so no way I could put a sturdy central pole in!
Drill holes thru 1x2s and tie with twine at top. No wire to hurt your hands. Twine thru other holes in 1x2s support your beans, cukes, etc.
I have lots of 8 foot strapping and t posts . I think I can make teepees like this. I like the center anchor pole. Thank you!!
I've planted bush beans for years but my back and legs are telling me to give that up so I'm going to try pole beans this season and am going to make the tee-pees the way you did. Pole beans also have some advantages over bush beans.
Growing black beans, red beans, green beans, sugar snap peas, and cucumbers on cattle fencing panels as trellis. We cut them in half and use them vertically to about 7 feet tall. I have done malabar spinach on a similar teepee system in the past. We have very strong winds here in Missouri, so strength is an important issue.
Hi Julia. Your comment was very interesting as I am growing wax beans and malabar spinach for the first time this year.
The beans are supposed to be bush beans, but they are looking leggy still. The malabar spinach is still in the starter pot.
Do you think that six foot bamboo poles are tall enough to accommodate the beans and the spinach?
Thank you in advance for your opinion.
@Anne-Marie A They will both grow as tall as your trellis, so they will get taller than the top until gravity pulls them back down. For me, 6 feet is a good height because it's hard to harvest if you use much taller.
@@juliadizmang2614 Thank you!
@@Anne--Marie You're welcome! Good luck!
Thank you so very much for sharing this video. 😊
Great beans thank you. This is exactly what I have been looking for. Any ideas for vine growing vegetables or fruit with 4 ft teepee using bamboo . I really love the look alot
Hi Melissa! Good morning from Skagit county 😀⛅ This is great, thank you! The strong post in the middle is such a good idea. I was planning on planting a couple small patches of pole beans today & wondering what to use for a trellis. This is totally doable by myself & prefect timing 😊
Waving from eastern Skagit county! I love this method because it's really inexpensive and easy to put up too. :)
I’m in Camano Island, WA area. I’m new to gardening and wonder what veggies work well in your experience? I have had many suggestions but sometimes it seems what one likes another person had bad luck. Main things I want to plant cherry tomato plants, green onions, sweet potatoes, lettuce of all variety. Do you have any special seeds, or nursery you go to buy plants?
What a great idea..thank you.
Strawberry seeds are available on Facebook to raise climbing strawberries. Your method looks super for that. Tks.
Grrrreat video! Thank you!!
Very helpful! Thank you!
First time building one for cucumbers
We use a 6 ft privacy fence and and arched structure.
Thanks for sharing.
I would be very interested to know how many people right now are actually growing these exact beans. Family and not family. I would love to try some myself!
Thank you for the useful instruction, Melissa. Can you use coated metal poles instead of wooden ones? I just have several on hand and want to make use of them.
You can try those, especially if you have them on hand, the beans might slip down them and if that happens, you could try tying a zip tie or maybe even some knotted twine around the poles (if they don't slip down) to give them something to hold on too.
Going to plant squash and cucumbers. Do you have a video for making a teepee for squash and cucumbers?
No I don't think the teepee would work as well for the squash, they need more support. I'm using this trellis system for the cucumbers ua-cam.com/video/rBl5zuGywKg/v-deo.html
I have a big long privacy fence standard 6 ft high. I was wondering if you had any suggestions for making trellises?
How many beans are you planting around each pole?
@Elena Twine I'm doing 4 seeds at the base of each pole.
Hey Melissa,
Do you mulch your plants, if so what do you use?
Hi Bill, in years past I haven't mulched the beans because normally in the PNW we're so wet, but for the past 4 years we've had hot dry summers and our snowpack was really low yet this year again so I will be mulching with wood chips.
Thank you for this! I have tons of T posts around from doing double snow fences every winter! Now they will get year round use!
(Can you tell I'm totally doing work right now.? Instead of watching this video again?)
Yout smart and 🔥
Pole beans #wingrowyourownfood
I’m hoping to use this with sugar baby watermelons and delicata squash.
How many beans do you plant around the base of each pole in the teepee? I haven't done any significant trellising beyond interplanting cowpeas with corn.
You mentioned you can plant other things underneath. What works? I'm thinking lettuce. Anything else?
Lettuce works, I usually plant my squash a few feet away and then their vines grow out and underneath the teepee, helping to keep the weeds down for me without mulch.
I have never seen that kind of soil , what region of the country is this ???
Even a cheap fence pole pounder costs between $40-80 at least on Amazon.
Cucumber and squash
peas
Why use wire instead of twine?
Twine breaks under weight
This woman is gorgeous ❤
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What boots are you wearing in the video for gardening? I need something better, lol
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Squash, Cucumbers