[teflon]

I've got some ropey looking fencing that i'd like to cover up on my plot,hopefully with something that will  produce something nice to eat .Any advice on what to plant?
  Cheers.
  Tel.

[Yorkie]

For starters:

Climbing beans
Runner beans
Squash (there's quite a few posts about growing squash up supports)

[sunshineband]

Nasturiums - leaves ar excellent in salad and so are flowers, plus you can pickle the seeds when they are green , a bit like capers

[teflon]

Can Tomatoes be trained to "climb" a trellis?

[Yorkie]

Tomatoes do need supports but are not self-climbing so you will need to tie them in from about 12" high

[teflon]

  Thanks to everyone.
  While on the subject of tomatoes, i've just seen that Homebase are selling an"upside down" tomato planter. How would the plant be held in place? Anyone had any experience with this sort of thing?

[Stripey_cat]

Cucumbers and melons will climb, so long as it's not a windy spot (both are rather sensitive to cold and rough weather).  Nasturtiums are delicious.  You can mix in sweet peas with your beans, both to improve pollination and to cut for the house - just don't let them set seed (the seeds are poisonous, and the plants will stop flowering).

[SnooziSuzi]

I've seen those upside down ones advertised in gardening mags;  I think that the idea is it doesn't matter what way round the plant is, but by having it upside down the roots can always be in moisture as there's a reservoir at the top to drip feed the roots.

[teflon]

Thanks everyone

[pol and mick]

just don't let them set seed (the seeds are poisonous, and the plants will stop flowering).

Sorry, which seeds are poisonous.

[sunshineband]

Cucumbers and melons will climb, so long as it's not a windy spot (both are rather sensitive to cold and rough weather).  Nasturtiums are delicious.  You can mix in sweet peas with your beans, both to improve pollination and to cut for the house - just don't let them set seed (the seeds are poisonous, and the plants will stop flowering).

We have eaten nasturtium seeds for years, pickling them in their green seed cases or just in slads together with leaves and flowers, and they are quite like capers (yummy  ) You are right that setting seed with limit their flowering, and picking off the unripe seed cases means you get more flowers too.