Grow Poleing

Kerrville, TX

Finally got around to posting some photo's of this years gardening efforts using mostly stacked containers. Here is an overall view of my grow poles. There are 22 stacks, 4 pots per stack..........a total of 88 pots. Each pot has four plant sites......so 88X4 equals.....lets see now........naught and naught and carry the zero and thats.........uhhhh.........352 plant sites. Howsomever, you can plant multiple seeds of most plants so I can easily have between 500 to 600 plants growing on these grow poles. Mustard greens for instance planted two seed per plant site is 32 mustard greens growing on one stack. That is the equivalent of about a 32 foot row if planting in the ground. And aint no bending and stooping when everything is growing up on a pole. At my age and physical condition, if I bend over too far I just fall on over. Then I have to lay out there screaming and yelling untill someone comes out and stands me back up.

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Kerrville, TX

Well.........I sure messed that post up. Hang in there........me and the computer will finish this fight!!!

Kerrville, TX

Try this one. All that green stuff on the far poles is spinach, chard, mustard greens, lettuce, radish, etc. We have had a very cool and wet spring that has slowed things down. An occasional day of sunshine and all that stuff leaps with joy. I have alll those poles water supply controlled by a mechanical timer. I could put an automatic timer on there but I prefer the simple mechanical timer.......just twist the knob to the number of minutes I guesstimate it will take to get enough water through the stack untill its dripping out the bottom of the stack.

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Kerrville, TX

Man doth not live on vegetables alone so I have some climbing roses to decorate the fence and there is on going up that cedar tree also.

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Kerrville, TX

Here is a better view of the poles with the green munching stuff. It doesn't show up yet but I have a cherry tomato growing out of one top pot also. Before long, I will be replacing the spring greens with somep'n else. I dont know what yet........but sump'n. With well planned(not my thang)succession planting, you can grow a tremendous amount of groceries on these grow poles each year with a minimum amount of labor.

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Santa Ana, CA(Zone 10b)

Jaywhacker, your yard never ceases to amaze me! Wish I had some sun in mine but I can't give up my avocado tree.

Crestview, FL

Jaywhacker: Have missed your pics of your gardening and it looks fabulous as it did last year. I'm trying to think of what flowers would go good in hanging containers for outback around my maters and such? Figured you have a good plan with the flower/veggie arrangements you do.
joy

Kerrville, TX

Im not too good at planning and flower arranging, Joy. I didn't get around to planting by own flower seed this year so I will just pick up small packs of different type flowers from the nurseries and "SPLATTER" them around on various poles.
























Oceanside, CA(Zone 10a)

New name "JayStacker"

Stack'em high, stack'em deep.

Missed your pics man. Keep'm coming!

Jacksonville, FL(Zone 9a)

I love your organization. It is wonderful. Do you have a source for stackers at a reasonable price? I'd like to try some here in semi-shade for greens.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Kerrville, TX

The stackers I use come from www.theezgro.com. From my experiments, greens in semi-shade works out pretty good to extend the normal growth cycle of some greens. Not too good during the hotter longest days of summer.

Crestview, FL

Jaywhacker: Aw come on now, I love the way you have color and everything the way it is displayed in your garden, and still love those tables you made, good job, are they holding up?
joy

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