Vertical Growing Cucumbers, Watermelons, Pumpkins, and Canteloupe

This year, we are growing our vine crops up a cage. This is a great space saving idea. Basically, the way my cages are built, the vine of any plant can get to be 8-10' before it ever hits the ground if trellised properly and supported. Even then, you can just feed the vines bag inside the cage. Below are some pics of our vertical grown crops.

Vertically Grown Cucumbers Caged



Vertically Grown Watermelon Caged





Squash grown up a garden trellis.



Vertically Grown Giant Pumpkins Caged



Vertically Grown Canteloupe Caged

Pepper Update and Tomato Worm Tragedy!

The peppers are also doing great. The only exception is my favorite plant, the one that I have been babying all year, the Bhut Jolokia, has met its demise. It was eaten by a tomato worm overnight. I have more in the garden, so not a huge loss. Biggest issue is that the Bhut only have a 10% germination rate, so they are hard to come by.

Sweet Pepper plants planted 12" apart.



Sweet Banana



Bhut Jolokia with isolation bag to keep from cross polination.



Bhut Jolokia planted in 5 gallon bucket.



Bhut Jolokia meet Tomato Worm!



Tomato worm vs Bhut Jolokia



Pepperoncini Pepper



Orange Sun Bell Pepper

Single Stem Heirloom Tomato Garden Update 7/19/2011

The heirloom tomatoes are doing great. Tallest plant is over 8 foot tall!











Yellow Pear Tomato




Tigerella Heirloom Tomato





Red Oxheart Heirloom Tomato




Red Cherry Heirloom Tomato




Kellogg's Breakfast Heirloom Tomato




Costoluto Genovese Heirloom Tomato








Big Red Heirloom Tomato