An Update on our Urban Fence Garden
Our fence garden is starting to produce plate-ready results. If you remember its humble beginnings, we thought you might like to see how it`s coming along:
The first few tomatoes have ripened (the smallest of course) and hot peppers are appearing daily. The herbs are in full glory.
I didn`t get the potatoes in on time – a good lesson learned. I am feeling that this is the first year that I`ve actually been able to produce any notable quantity of food for the summer and I`m most excited to have the supply of food that is here and coming…
Comments
Wow that is really coming along it looks wonderful!
That’s great you’re able to get productivity out of that space!
You might want to whack back that vine a bit though–it’ll take over. It is trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans)–a gorgeous hummingbird-attracting native vine, just really robust.
I agree with val. Prune the heck out of the trumpet vine. It can take it. You can shape it as and where you want. But don’t get rid of it because not only does it attract hummingbirds, pollinators in general love it! And you can grow much more valuable things on that fence! A couple of Alibi cucumber plants would work well. The cukes are tiny like little cornichons but the vines are prolific and do well in pots. I grow mine 4 vines to a window box (x3) and so far have gotten enough cukes for salads and a couple gallons for pickling.