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One of the regular posters on the gardening thread had very good luck last year trellising winter squashes. Spaghetti squashes too, IIRC. Cucumbers and small melons do very well trellised also. It’s the only way I grow my cucumbers anymore. No digging around in the viney dark places that might have SNAKES in them. Just pick off the trellis!

Last 2 years I planted ONE Bush Cucumber plant in a 20” pot. I had some hardware cloth that I placed between the soil and the pot. For the most part, the vines grew on the trellis and I had fresh 6” cukes all season. It was perfect for just the two of us.

This year I am trying a bush snap pea and bush green beans. They will go into the garden. I don’t know if they really don’t need support, but I am thinking of some tomato towers with cord between them, just in case they do. The peas are up and the beans have begun sprouting.

I ordered from Shumway for tomato plants this year. I had three bad years of Burpee tomato plants arriving rotted. I think it was their plastic containers, which were dripping with condensation.

I am experimenting with a winter sowing of Campari seeds in a water jug on my deck. It has been two weeks and nothing, yet. I will start some in regular peat pellets this week or next.

there is a thread here on Free Republic ... that I read and was very interested in their ideas a few months ago (regarding being prepared, extra food, water, seeds, equipment, medical kit, etc. how to have a hide away, A cave in the woods, burying necessities, water, cover, things for warmth, fire, medicine, etc., and of course telling no one.

One of the posters was named granny, or grandma .. ???

Anyway I can't find it now. Do not have a link.

,or know about this thread?

Thanks.