Protecting my garden and growing vertically with hoophouses and trellises. 

As you may know, last year the critters ate all of my garden. 

This year, I tried hoophouses to protect my plants and they worked great at keeping the critters out and my plants flourished.

Then, I saw videos where gardeners were using cattle panels for trellises… “hmmm, this might also work,” I thought.

My first searches for the wire panels resulted in pricing from $80-$250 each and that was not going to work for me. 

Then, I lucked out and found some locally for $55 and I bought three. 

That was in July (2022). 

Now, July is  a little late to plant a garden, here in Ontario… so I thought. But, then, I discovered that you could do “fall gardening”. 

Growing up on a farm, we harvested our crops in July and August. I never knew that you could plant in July to harvest in the fall. This was all new to me and I had my new cattle panel trellises sitting there begging for some plants. 

And, so the experiment began. 
I had about 70 days until the predicted first frost. It was worth a try. 

That is where the story began.