Well, after a few weeks of thought, and feeling quite bad about messing up my hubby's space, it dawned on me. Le Jardin! Last year I had a Sweet 100 tomato plant that grew 6 feet tall, then, conquering the feeble wire conical cone I had provided for support, it proceeded to grow over the edge, then back down, and along the ground. Had it had a GOOD support, it would have been at least 12 feet tall! I had recently priced stronger ugly square cages at the farm store, and decided I wasn't going to break the bank to maximize the space in my garden, I could do it myself! After finding some salvaged cedar from a discount lumber lot, here's what I came up with. The huge one is for the sweet 100. Then, once I ran out of usable pieces from the curly willow, my other neighbor offered me all the willow I wanted out of her creek. Sooo, I continued on to finish the last few supports. I am looking forward to nurturing the garden this year without running into the endless tripwires of fishing line I usually have holding up those flimsy tomato conical cages! YAY! Bye bye fishing line! Hello pretty spaces.
I'll post an update this summer to let you know which worked out to be the best design.
Oh, and I'm excited about my little cucumber trellis, too.
Okay, now that I am sharing, I must give you the update on my lettuce patch. This year, I put a pot in the middle for my mint. (As some of you know, mint is invasive and can take over the garden, so it should be contained. Here's my blurb for the "color me bad" theme this week: I threw in some red/orange super bells, so I will have some beautiful cascading color this summer to compliment my green mint.)
This is AMAZING! Such a chic, up-cycled project! Im going to have to pick your brain about veggie gardens. We are starting our first and I'm so nervous about it! Will you be my garden sensei?
ReplyDeleteYou are so crafty! I love them Liz! These would also make awesome string bean climbers; far better than the posts and farm string I use every year. - Heather
ReplyDeleteLiz, you are so inventive. What a great eye and fertile imagination to spot the tree leaving your neighborhood and put it to good use.
ReplyDeleteYou girls are on to something that has become quite the trend - backyard veggie gardens. Leading edge, always on the leading edge.
love the creatively sculptural trellises! the shapes the willow branches make are amazing. i just read an article on this very topic, and one of the more interesting designs was a tall board with circular cut-outs of different sizes, creating a bunch of hollow "polka-dots" for tomato plants to creep through. no comparison to your project, though! totally cool.
ReplyDeleteMagnifique!
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