Trellising Secrets: When It's A Game-Changer And When It's Not

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On today's 2 minute garden tip, I share the do's and don'ts of trellising plants in your garden. Some plants love being grown vertically up a trellis, while others do not. Knowing the difference is often the key between success and failure, and I give my trellising secrets for success so you'll know when trellising plants is good and when it's bad.
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@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help increase its reach! Thank you for watching 😀

@tinad6812 Месяц назад

You can use a piece of cloth or netting to hold up large watermelons. I do it for my small sugar baby watermelons, because those can get to be about 8 pounds. I see other gardeners doing it for the large ones, especially if they don’t have lots of space for them to crawl on the ground. Thank you. Your garden looks beautiful as always. 😊

@randyadams7269 Месяц назад

Try old pantyhose!

@contestwill1556 Месяц назад

yeah i made hammocks for my pumpkins before and it worked fine but was kind of annoying

@donnabrooks1173 Месяц назад

As always, a great and informative videos. BTW Congratulations on your marriage to Britney. I was tickled pink. I saw the ring on your finger and was asking myself if you did get married. But your beautiful post with the picture of your wedding confirmed it. Also loved Dale in the picture. I know he is a big part of your life as mine are too. I always enjoy your adventures with him at the end . He is just so adorable. I wish many more years of happiness for the three of you. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Dale was the best looking guy at the ceremony for sure 😄 Thank you! I appreciate it.

@salinadandurand25 Месяц назад

I grew some pumpkins last year on a homemade A-frame trellis and crocheted hammocks for my fruit to sit in. I had a few bigger than my head and nothing fell off the vines as they grew. I think as long as you know what you're growing and take proper precautions you should be good to grow just about anything on a trellis except for maybe the prize winning large pumpkins and melons

@valoriegriego5212 Месяц назад

Howdy, M G! Enjoyed you live!👍 I put hammocks under my melons when I grow them vertically.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Thanks for watching live! I appreciate it.

@larryestabrook Месяц назад

The weight of the fruit can be supported using cloth as a cradle. I’ve done it, it works.

@IllumeEltanin Месяц назад

I’m thinking of trying nylon knee highs as cradles for medium sized watermelon and pumpkins. Here’s hoping it works for me.

@jeweleagle613 Месяц назад

Get bras from goodwill! Seriously!!

@IllumeEltanin Месяц назад

@@jeweleagle613 Brilliant!

@WisGuy4 Месяц назад

Take a pair of scissors to an old T-shirt and you’ll have 2 to 4 slings that’ll support almost any size melon or squash

@mariap.894 Месяц назад

@@jeweleagle613😂😂😂😂 I can only imagine a garden with bras😂😂😂😂 ❤❤❤

@diananazaroff5266 Месяц назад

Oh, you just gave me an idea! I have yet to plant my sweet potato slips in their pots. I'm going to move the pots to an area where I'm growing heat sensitive plants and put a trellis of a chain link fence gate for the vines to grow up and give the other plants some shade! Thanks!

@sandysmith8567 Месяц назад

Thanks so much! My little garden is full, especially with 2 winter squash going nuts, but have a few sweet potato slips. Hadn't even considered that they could be trellised!

@TheVeganFamilyDK Месяц назад

I need to remember to get some shade cloth. Thank you for this video all great advice 🙏

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

It's a game-changer. I can't recommend it highly enough.

@deecooper1567 Месяц назад

Great info as always 👍👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Glad it was helpful!

@kristin143 Месяц назад

good job! I like that cute watermelon

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Soon, it’ll be a big guy 😆

@kristin143 Месяц назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips I'll be waiting for the video

@TexasNana2 Месяц назад

Thanks for the video 🙂 Really enjoyed your first live yesterday. Looking forward to many more 😊

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

You're welcome! I appreciate you watching. Now that I know how to do the livestreams, I hope to do more in the future. I'll try to do another one in July.

@TexasNana2 Месяц назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips Wonderful! Looking forward to the live 😀

@Vunderbread Месяц назад

Just a random thought, if you're trying to diversify your business, I feel like the drip irrigation 'industry' has leagues of room for improvement. They all use the same cheap kinky plastic tubing, with the same method of puncturing a hole and inserting drip lines/emitters, which is incredibly inconvenient especially with a dynamic garden setup where those punctured holes cannot be undone. I hate waste, and I hate cheap plastic, and I don't have any great ideas in mind, but I know we can do a LOT better.

@TJTreasuresearth Месяц назад

How about someone modifying the connection systems- linkable sections, or something similar 😊

@thomashouseal5688 Месяц назад

Great video. There are waya to suppoet the watermelons if you use a trelis and you wont loose them all

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

But if you have 6, 12, 20 melons, it becomes impossible. It is easier and better to just let them sprawl. Then, you don’t have to worry.

@ChuckP25. Месяц назад

Thanks Anthony! Thumbs up. Hugs to Dale.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

You're welcome! Dale says hi 🐶

@melanieallen8980 Месяц назад

great tips! Especially with sweet potatoes

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Thanks!

@47retta Месяц назад

My mom had volunteer pumpkin vines climbing her trees. The fruit got pretty big before they dropped.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Some small pumpkins can be trellised. Large vines can’t hold the weight of larger pumpkins, so they’ll never reach maturity.

@COGirl444 Месяц назад

You can hammock heavier melons with old t shirts

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

That would be difficult. What do you do when you have 5, 10, 15, 20 fruits? You'd be constantly chasing your tail. It's really easy and low risk to let the larger fruited melons sprawl out, and their thick rinds are naturally resistant to pests. I've actually had claw marks on a melon in the past, and whatever it was couldn't get through. That was only a one-time thing, though.

@Wonderland_Homestead Месяц назад

My first year, I managed One Single Pumpkin. Casper. It crawled up the fence, and I put a small outdoor table under the growing fruit to support it.

@chriswiley5184 Месяц назад

@2 Minute Garden Tips, could you do a more in-depth video on where and when to start pruning your watermelons for the best harvest? This is my first year and I’ve looked at almost every video I can find but I need something a little more concise. Some don’t prune back to the beginning vine, some allow baby shoots to run off and others cut them out. I just want to harvest a few nice sweet sugar babies for my husband this summer. I have some fruit set already and it is further down the vine (about 3’) down. I’m not sure if i should prune some leaves off out to that point or not. Mine are running on the ground. Any help is greatly appreciated. Great video btw, I learned growing up from you and I love it! It makes my life so much easier.

@hardstylzz5024 Месяц назад

You could check out lazy dog farm, or hoss tools shows alot melon videos.

@wrongwayconway Месяц назад

I made slings for.my pumpkins that I had trellises in tomato cages. One pumpkin vine attached itself to my chain link fence and the pumpkin grew on the OTHER side of the fence. 😅

@Nothingisathing23 Месяц назад

How do you trellis sweet potatoes vines?

@tiffymag Месяц назад

In another video, you mentioned the native habitats of melons is tropical or subtropical rainforest where they grow all year long on the forest floor in dappled light and climb up the trees with their vines. So I think people are surprised to hear you say you can't or shouldn't trellis melons. However, I agree that it is much less work to just let them sprawl on the ground. They did very good last year and took over a good chunk of my stone patio. Is there a reason they seem to do better with some kind of tarp or stone underneath them instead of grass/dirt?

@Chris-op7yt Месяц назад

Need a straight forward way to trellis crops like peppers and eggplants. As these plants load up with heavy fruit set, they still keep branching, making it difficult to keep them from getting blown over in strong winds. Simple weave and individual staking are both difficult to do and have limited success.

@hackiehackerson Месяц назад

I put cantaloupe on a six foot cyclone fence this year after reading that they can support themselves. lol fingers crossed. either way, I win. lessons are worthwhile too I suppose

@mcgritty8842 Месяц назад

We livin and learning together then because I set up honeydew, cantaloupe and watermelon along a trellis and they are shooting for the stars lol I have wood supports so I can always rig up a net to support the fruit as needed because in my hind sight, a 25 lb watermelon will not hold itself 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ I wish your all grows the best ❤

@hackiehackerson Месяц назад

@@mcgritty8842 same to you! I've had bad luck growing melon on the ground so this was my last try 🤣

@stevevet3652 Месяц назад

When trellising watermelons, you need to cradle the fruit. Asian farmers have perfected this technique. They grow more fruit in a smaller area.

@mzladrj8711 Месяц назад

All you have to do is get or make a hammock! I grew my watermelon vertically on a wooded fwnce and put a netted hammock under it to hold the watermelon it never fell. I wouldnt grow vertically with the huge watermelons though.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

That’s exactly my point. The vines can’t support the weight, so now you have all this extra work to do to correct the mistake. And if you have many fruits, it becomes impossible. The ties will fail, you’ll miss some, wind will knock them down. It just isn’t worth it. So many problems and extra work.

@PrettyBrownFoodie Месяц назад

Tfs! Do you prune your sweet potato vines? If so when and how often? Thank you.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

No, absolutely not. Generally, pruning stresses the plant, then encourages more vigor, which will take away from root development. I only cut sweet potato vines if they become so unruly that I have no choice.

@PrettyBrownFoodie Месяц назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips Thank you so much for responding. I’m new to growing sweet potatoes. Actually I’m new to it all.

@F.B.l Месяц назад

Hey i think i remember you saying a few videos back that you live in North Carolina, i just have a question, How are you growing so good like all my plants are slowly growing and dieing bc the PURE RED CLAY dirt😭

@melindaduncan3073 27 дней назад

Could you please tell me or give me a link to your shade cloth? I’m in rock hill sc and it’s hot! My poor tomato leaves are curled

@pattilemonhouse7911 Месяц назад

👏👏👏

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Thanks for watching!

@TJTreasuresearth Месяц назад

I was one day late putting supports under my volunteer pumpkins growing up and over the covered chicken coop... yep, the squash pulled everything down😢

@Boosted98gsx Месяц назад

How do you deal with aphids? My fruiting plants seem to be ransacked by the stupid things every year and I can't keep them at bay.

@wallybruns4035 Месяц назад

I've seen where people use pantyhose to hang their fruit. I have cantaloupes supported with left over pest netting.

@Cichlid_4_ever Месяц назад

If we trestle it vertically and find ways to support the weight of the fruit, can it still be done vertically?

@WisGuy4 Месяц назад

Yes, absolutely- cut an old t-shirt into 2 to 4 pieces and make support slings/hammocks that you tie to the trellis with rope or sturdy twine.

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Yes, with significant extra work. You’ll have to watch them regularly, tie them up, the wind knocks them down, ties come undone, and if you have many melons, it becomes a headache. It is easier to avoid the whole problem and just grow them on the ground on tarps or weed barrier.

@JamesJones-gj1ii Месяц назад

Just support the melon with a netting and you’ll be fine

@2MinuteGardenTips Месяц назад

Most cheap netting will not be strong enough for melons. It would have to be extremely taught, and then you have to deal with those nets eventually wearing out. I prefer metal trellises for heavier fruits.

@emelle7956 Месяц назад

This wasn't 2 minutes >:( i'm LIVIDDD!

@WisGuy4 Месяц назад

This is the first bad advice I’ve heard you give in the several years I’ve been a subscriber. One CAN grow heavy squash or melons on a vertical trellis. You simply need to create some sort of a sling to support them. Cut an old t-shirt in half and tie it on with rope to the trellis, and that will support a melon or squash up to 20 pounds or so.