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    Plants that are encouraged to grow upwards leave us more room at ground level. Obvious, innit
    Most of us grow our beans and peas on some sort of structure and there are other veg and fruit that can be grown up a framework - like climbing squashes, cucumbers and so on.
    You're such an inventive, resourceful bunch that it would be good to share our "support" with each other.
    Please show us what you're growing upwards and how your structure was made. It can be freestanding, or against a wall or fence, straight or hooped, homemade, re-purposed or bought. In fact anything that could be described as "vertical" gardening.
    The more space we can free up at ground level, the more we can cram in below

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    Up seems to be just about the only place left to go in my garden. Here are some of the ways I'm fitting more stuff in:

    Peas - fairly conventional plastic mesh between broom handles witha supporting cane in the middle. I find tying the peas back with string helps keep them from leaning over everything in front, particularly in this sort of position where the light all comes from one side. The middle pot on the fence is trailing nasturtium (which has got a bit battered by the wind).



    Potatoes and raspberries - the raspberries are growing underneath and through the shelves of an old blowaway greenhouse which stops them flopping about. The potatoes are in buckets on the raised beds, with plastic mesh in front to restrain the foliage (I'm using the same system to restrain the rhubarb to the right of this picture).



    Strawberries in towers - these are called "flower towers" and have 30 holes for planting and a central tube for watering. The holes are small so you need to have plug plants not pot grown ones in order to fit them in. Marshmello on the left and Elsanta on the right.



    More strawberries - these are on the garden seat in stacking tower pots. Top layer is more Marshmello, bottom layer is Malwina (late variety not flowering yet).



    Runner beans - A simple tripod of 8ft poles tied fairly low down so that hopefully the beans will be easier to pick higher up. My pole towers are in the background, containing herbs, french beans and wild strawberries.



    I still need to construct supports for outdoor cucumbers and melons, and also for melons in my growhouse. I have ideas but can't really do much until I have cut my hedge.
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    • #3
      All I've got to show you so far is my bean supports


      Made so that the beans are planted in the centre of the bed and should grow at an angle towards the edges - that way I should be able to grow in the edges as well. Last year I used wigwams of canes and had difficulty weeding the space in the middle.

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      • #4
        Don;t forget growing down - I have some washing up bowls on top of the shed with salad bits in.
        I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

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        • #5
          Not sure how well this shows it, but I have tall canes and netting for my peas, canes with string for my cucumbers and aubergine and metal posts with galvanised wire for my raspberries. I'm also attempting to train a bramble round a cane obelisk but not convinced how successful it will be...
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Nurseygreen View Post
            Not sure how well this shows it, but I have tall canes and netting for my peas, canes with string for my cucumbers and aubergine and metal posts with galvanised wire for my raspberries. I'm also attempting to train a bramble round a cane obelisk but not convinced how successful it will be...
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            • #7
              BM I'll get the hang of it one day!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Nurseygreen View Post
                BM I'll get the hang of it one day!
                No rush...................
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Nurseygreen View Post
                  BM I'll get the hang of it one day!
                  Its the vertical photos that flip on their sides, Nursey. Horizontal ones are OK or you can crop the vertical ones.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Nurseygreen View Post
                    BM I'll get the hang of it one day!
                    Are you using an iphone or ipad? If so, crop them top and bottom (slightly) before uploading and they will come in the correct way.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                      Its the vertical photos that flip on their sides, Nursey. Horizontal ones are OK or you can crop the vertical ones.
                      I should read the whole thread before posting

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                      • #12
                        6 Hanging baskets of tomatoes - the lot for £7.50 from H0meb@se cheapo racks
                        Attached to one of the log store roof supports.



                        The Treemen are impressed

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                        • #13
                          I'm either on the tablet or my phone and they look upright until I click post... then they fall over...

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                          • #14
                            Runner beans up a 6ft cane then along a 6ft rope. 12ft of easily reachable bean plant and the dangly down ones come lovely and straight.

                            And of course my toms in hanging baskets.

                            under them wall mounted troughs fro strawbs.
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                            • #15
                              Each wall basket has a red tumbling tom with selections of either nasturtium, basil, geranium, french marigold & petunia.
                              An old swing frame is sturdy & strong in any weather,netting in the middle of the raised bed for melons & cucumbers,geraniums behind them next to the grape & apple trees,a couple of tomatoes on the inside corners of the raised bed (using strings tied on the posts,on both sides of the plants,so the plants rest between strings). A trellis leaning(tied with string)on the outside of the swing,three Essex wonder tomato plants,french marigolds,basil,geraniums,petunia & sweet pepper on the outside by the trellis.
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