Squash Tunnel | Gardening | Jobe’s Agency Weblog
Truth be suggested, I’m significantly of a model new vegetable gardener. I’ve solely been rising edibles for about 4 years now, and I’ve realized heaps about what works and what doesn’t — like squashes, for example. We’re a large squash family. We love all of them, the summer season squashes and the winter squashes. Nonetheless my veggie yard isn’t all that big, and squash vegetation take up a great deal of home. So, after seeing some inspiring pictures on Pinterest, we obtained all the way down to assemble a Squash Tunnel.
It’s a fairly easy course of, and the thought is pretty easy — assemble a tunnel so that the squash vegetation develop up and over, pretty than alongside the underside. This accomplishes three points.
- It saves home.
- It’s healthful for the squashes to carry overhead pretty than lay on the underside.
- It’s easy to reap them.
Proper right here’s what you need:
(4) Tall Stakes — We used 4’ tall T-posts
Ranch panel fencing — We purchased (3) 20’ x 5’ objects of ranch panel with 4”x4” openings. Seek for it at a home enchancment retailer, fence present agency or setting up present agency. You possibly can solely need one panel relying upon how big or in depth you want your tunnel to be.
Baling wire — Sturdy zip ties could even work
Vegetation — Any vining veggie (cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, and so forth.)
Proper right here’s how we did it:
- Resolve the place you want the tunnel. Choose a sunny, diploma website online, and measure out how huge you want your tunnel to be. Ours is about 8’ huge to provide ample room for plant progress and strolling beneath.
- Set the stakes. Set them 12” into the underside, two on both aspect. In case your ranch panel is 5’ huge like ours, set the stakes just a few inches inside that width on both aspect.
- Join the ranch panel. You should have a couple of buddies that can provide help to, as a result of the panel is unwieldy. Using baling wire or zip ties, join the panel to the pores and skin fringe of the stakes on one aspect, then curve it overhead to be related to the stakes on the other aspect.
- Plant your veggies. Plant vining veggies on the inside of the tunnel, close to the ranch panel. I planted one on both aspect, so they might develop up and meet inside the middle.
Tip: Use Jobe’s Organics for Greens & Tomatoes to get your vegetation off to a superb start and to verify a superb harvest.
Jenny Peterson is an Austin, Texas-based yard designer alongside together with her private company, J. Peterson Yard Design, along with a writer, creator and speaker. She focuses on designing, writing and speaking about gardens that enhance the usual of life, heal from the inside out and help to create stability and wellness.
