Star of the trellis show at Noble Rot, it’s Tromboncino, the Italian summer squash that is absolutely unrepentant about its unrestrained vining habit. A few years ago I had a vision. The vision was of walking under an overhanging trellis dripping with vegetables and of the vegetables being laughably easy to harvest. Slight effort to […]
Category Archives: Vertical Gardening
No More Tomato Cages!
I’m not sure why I do it. Every year, for some reason or another, I wind up using those flimsy, conical tomato cages as supports for my tomato plants, and every year, by mid-season, I am cursing the floppy, insubstantial things, swearing I won’t set another one in the ground ever again. You know what they look like: […]