Texas Gardening: false spring, 1 by Jaywhacker

Jaywhacker wrote:
It has been a mild winter. I had tomato's up untill about Dec 10 on the same vertical grow pole with the Calundula's. The calundula's on that one pole has never missed a beat all winter. I really need to take that pole down and clean it up and get ready for replanting but the bee's are still working those flowers so I am leaving it up. To the right of the calundula pole is another pole I planted in radish, chard, and mesclun mix and they are all doing fine. You cant see them too well but there are 3 poles of sweet pea flowers and two of the poles have blooms.

On those 4x4 ft platforms, I can mount 4 poles with five pots on each pole. That gives me 20 plant sites per pole and 80 total plant sites on all four poles. In the middle of the platform, I can bottom water up to 50 one gallon pots or 16 two gallon pots. I grew 116 plants on one platform earlier this year. Three platforms in a space of 4X14 feet of space can easily grow about 400 plants. Succession planting of such crops as lettuce, radish, toy choi, chinese greens, etc, I can really churn out a lot of stuff in a years time.......especially with good weather like we have been having.

If you are interested in growing vertically, I have lots of good information I can give you. The poles you see here are by http://www.theexgro.com.