Tip for Trellis Gardening
Use trellises to create a micro-climate for shade-tolerant crops while giving sun lovers the exposure they need. Find more advice on using trellises on the Eartheasy blog.

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Every year is an experiment in the garden and growing tomatoes vertically is one of the best decisions we ever did! A few tips👇 1. Build a trellis system or ensure you have a plan to support 2. Look at seed packet to choose a vining tomato variety (this is also called indeterminate varieties) 3. Plant them one foot apart (you prune hard!) 4. Plant lettuce in the middle, basil all around, carrots and marigolds in the same bed 5. Our fav varieties last year were black krim & sun gold Tomato...
Cucumber Trellis for Under $20
Unfortunately, i didn't get the step by step pictures of this project but I think you can kind of make it out. Since these pictures, I had to take my little Urban Homestead down, due to some other projects we have going in our back yard, but I wanted to share this trellis with you. I'm extremely NEW to gardening, as I was apartment bound till this year. :) Didn't really know what a backyard was. HA! I wanted to start growing Veggies. Specially cucumbers, we love them at my house. I did…