Photo by Rick Gush
My pumkins , which are found on a treillage , need extra support as they develop , so I build this pumpkin support system .
Gardening on a cliffpresents some amusing job .
I really like grow squash vines , but there ’s no agency I have enough horizontal blank space for these sprawler . So what I do usually is produce the vine on the sharpness of a terrace and let them spill down across the terraces below . I have four wintertime squash racquets vine that have uprise down the 20 - animal foot face where I have some wild edible asparagus plants and a one-half twelve other squash vine that are begin to cringe across the lemon tree on the terrace below where they are institute . My trombetti squash are already about 16 foot long , and a few of the vine look like they might be able to make it another 20 ft down toward the street level . All the big greenish squash leafage look very attractive with the promising yellow bloom on the vine .
For my pumpkins this year , I dug some big pits at the back of one bottom and fill them with the compost from my organic refuse collector . I plant the pumpkin seeds in water wells at the back of the bed in such a way that the works would have almost 10 feet of open dirt before they accomplish the border of the patio . With pumpkin vine , I like to inter the first five or six client of the vines in order that each node can develop its own set of root . This multi - rooting organization seems best for supporting the huge emergence spurts that giving pumpkins go through when they are growing the pumpkin fruits . Once a pumpkin yield sets , I can see it get great every day for about a month before the enlargement slows or stops .
This is all fine , except the autumn pumpkin are now cover an overhead trellis on the bench below where they ’re planted . It was pretty clear-cut that while the trellis could support the vine and leaves , gravid heavy pumpkin hang in mid air travel at the top of a 70 - foot - tall cliff above our parking wad was a recipe for mussy disaster .
My pumkins, which are planted on a trellis, need extra support as they grow, so I built this pumpkin support system.
So now I ’ve built some improbable cane musical accompaniment that have hardy baskets about 7 feet above ground spirit level . The baskets should be able to plump for the weight of a big , matured pumpkin , but if the yield keep getting boastful , I may have to imagine about adding reinforcements .
i produce Costoluta tomato in my garden .
Today ’s second exposure is of some of our Costoluta tomatoes that are fruiting like unhinged these days . Costoluta tomatoes are passably common here , and each region seems to have their own varieties that the local anaesthetic uprise . Here in Liguria , a lot of gardeners grow Cuore di Bue , which means “ Ox Heart . ” We ’re growing Cuore di Bue ourselves . My married woman is n’t nuts about them , but I like them slice in balsamic vinegar and my sister and mother in constabulary take everything we institutionalize them .
These monster train in clustering of six or seven yield , and the weight of all that fruit stand for that these plants also take surplus support from canes , even though the sturdy trunks of these tomatoes are an inch and a one-half thick . With all the plants needing financial support , I reckon I ’m using about a hundredArundocanes , and there a few area where I should have used more . apparently , cutting a lot of new canes will be one of this winter ’s projects .
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