My Garden: New and Improved

slimbolen99 wrote:Looks AWESOME.  Especially like the way you're trellising your tomatoes.

Marc Iverson wrote:Looks very nice. I like those big fat peas!

yolos wrote:Looks real good and healthy.  What variety of peas are you growing and how tall do they get.  My spring peas are all finished and removed from the beds but I am going to do a fall planting and I am trying to decide what variety to plant.

camprn wrote:

yolos wrote:Looks real good and healthy.  What variety of peas are you growing and how tall do they get.  My spring peas are all finished and removed from the beds but I am going to do a fall planting and I am trying to decide what variety to plant.

I grow the sugarannes, and they typically max out just above 3 feet, 4 feet at the most. I wonder if they would grow taller if I didn't sow them so thickly.

I have wondered the same thing about the height of the various beans I am planting.  Last year my dragon tongue beans grew to a height of 5 feet.  This year they have stalled at 3 feet.  The major difference between the two years is this year I planted them in a 2 x 2 and intensively spaced them.  Is the height a result of the spacing or some other environmental factors.  ??????????  I think I will experiment next year and see if I can eliminate some of the other variables.

Yolos.....what is that in your profile pic??  looks amazing!  Our dragon's tongue beans only grow about 18" tall, and that's what the packet says?? I've never seen climbing ones? I'd love to get some seeds tho! Check you packet and see what you have  We strip our beans once a week, and get about a grocery store bag full of beans each time. They really really produce, and NO strings!!  love 'em!!

sanderson wrote:I Googled Florida Weave, and lo and behold, there were photos of Camp's garden!

kristinz wrote:Camp - is the box with the tomatoes strictly all tomatoes or do you plant anything in the middle between the plants? ... I think I would like to give this a try next year - need to make sure I do it right!

camprn wrote:
CC how do you trellis or stake your indeterminate tomatoes now?

sanderson wrote:And one on bean trellising with string, where to place the lower anchor "bar."

CapeCoddess wrote:Excellent explanation! and your video came out great, Camp.  I didn't know about weaving one of the side branches so as to stabilized the plant against the wind. Thank you so much!

Now how about a video of the first trellis you wove earlier that isn't for tomatoes, the one you said that you saw it done and taught yourself how to do it?  
  
But I think that one would be impossible to do with one hand.
CC