What is the plural of Trellis anyway? Trellisi? Trellises? Anyway, Will and I had a productive Sunday in the garden, as it was finally sunny and warm. We planted our potatoes (see the black mounds in the photo) and then we made pea and bean trellises in the Victory Garden. We had to get these made so we could plant all 32412 beans and peas plants that we started indoors. They are about 12-14 inches long and needing to be in the ground soon so they can start climbing!
I am sure our neighbors think us strange. And yet they will want to have any of the fruit and veg we produce.
The idea with the trellis is that the beans and peas grow up it and they create shade. In between the trellises we can put plants that need a bit a shade: lettuces, spinach, potatoes. Also, the potato bug gets confused by the beans and so doesn't eat the potatoes, and we don't have to spray! We will add in some marigolds and sweet asylum as well as they will draw good bugs, like bees, to the garden but confuse bad bugs, like the potato bug, and protect our plants. It's companion gardening at its best!
And isn't that a lovely star magnolia in bloom? Currently the Victory Garden looks more Zen Garden, but just you wait! We have big, delicious, fruity plans.
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Wonderful! I built trellises yesterday, too. But mine are teensy and primitive, compared to yours.
I'm not going to do lettuce, since it's so hot here. But the snow pea and sugarsnap pea seeds are going straight into the ground tomorrow morning. It'll rain while we're gone, so that will water them.
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