climbing veggies

[desertlady]

Please give me a list of vegetables that I can grow on fences. Living in Arizona is hot and will like to grow some shade ! :coolsun Ive always grew them in ground. but will like the to grow upright ! Thanks !!

 

[lesa]

My favorite thing to grow vertically are pole beans. They grow fast, taste good and provide privacy and shade... The other thing I always grow on my fence are birdhouse gourds. Not edible, but fun!

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'll start and take a few easy ones.

Pole beans, not bush beans, though some bush beans will grab onto a trellis. Bush beans won't give you any shade though.

Cucumbers.

Some types of green peas. Some are bush type and don't need to climb, but some are really helped out by trellissing. Probably not much shade though.

Tomatoes, especially indeterminant varieties. Some of these can get 7 feet tall or more easily.

Most winter squash. I'd maybe think about the regular sized blue hubbards, but most of the winter squash do well on a trellis or fence. Some melons would be OK, but do not try trellissing canteloupe. One way you can tell a canteloupe is ripe is that it pulls off the vine easily. Smaller pumpkins can be trellissed too.

Like Lesa said, gourds work well too.

Hops are probably not for your climate? Grapes and hardy kiwi are not vegetables either but they climb well. Not sure how either would do in your climate.

I'll leave the harder ones for others.

 

[desertlady]

Thank you !! Im glad I got my cucumbers growing by my fence. and now will get pole beans !!! row

 

[Jared77]

What about something like Morning Glory? I swear you can watch them grow they grow so fast. They have a very pretty flower, come in a bunch of colors, will self seed. Something else to think about. Pole beans would be my first choice then cucumbers if you wanted a veggie. Best part is you get fresh beans all season long they just keep producing and producing.

 

[so lucky]

Peas, early spring or in the fall.

 

[897tgigvib]

Wellp, you're down there in hotland.

Find the biggest and best Cantaloupes to grow, just make sure you make shelves for them as they ripen. Crenshaws, big fancy hybrids, and plant some cool heirloom ones in with them, and let them cross.

Ooh, and grow some Watermelons too, whatever big and juicy and colorful ones strike your fancy.


Yep, and grow the coolest Beans, big huge pole beans, lots of them. Might want to plant Sunflowers or a tall corn variety for them to climb on. Tall Amaranth works too.

When the weather down there begins to cool off, a month before your first frost, plant a ton of Peas as you are eating your melons. Alderman is a good tall one, and some of the snow peas are good and tall.

 

[desertlady]

I find that peas dont do well here, but planted it anyway !! I like to keep trying !! Last year my cantaloupe did grow on a fence. I had to make a pocket to help support the canteloupe ! I was afraid the weight will break it off too early !! This year my garden is "Turned around" I try not to plant them in the same place, because I over did too many tomatoes! My tomatoes grew bigger than any other plants !! I enjoyed making salsa all summer !!

 

[897tgigvib]

Believe it or not, there are varieties of Peas that do well in the Southwest. Again, they are offered by Native Seed Search.

With Peas down there, I would plant a few every 3 weeks or so all year, and keep track of which planting time does best. I'm going to be in the process of doing that with Beets here beginning around the first of July.

www.nativeseeds.org

 

[ducks4you]

I was introduced to Scarlett Runner beans here on TEG. I haven't always harvested the beans when ripe BUT in 2011 I saved a scad of seeds, which I planted this weekend along my leftover cattle fencing, by the street. The blooms are bright red and the fencing gives them lots of places to hang onto.