Creative Gardening Space

If you are limited on your gardening space, you might want to considering growing up rather than out to keep some of your plants from spreading out over lawn or taking over other plants.  We used a frame from a bench swing that had been been damaged from our beautiful rescue dog who enjoyed chewing the cushions. (That is another story) You then laced rope around the frame to create a ladder looking effect across the frame. As our pumpkins began to grow and leaves started running everywhere, we placed the vines on the ropes and then naturally continued to spread and bloom up the frame. We watched the pumpkins grow. You could stabilize larger pumpkins with some extra support rope if they needed it.