Climbing Food?

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Kajazy

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Climbing Food?
« on: May 26, 2011, 13:59 »
Has anyone got any ideas...? I've just inherited a metal garden arch, about 2m tall, which I'd like to put up at the allotment - is there anything I could grow over it food-wise? I'm a bit scarce on fruit, so if there are any climbing fruit (other than brambles - we've got lots of those at the bottom of the plot already!!), I'm all ears...

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2011, 14:06 »
I was going to say a small one person size pumpkin like a Hooligan...

but then you said fruit :(

I can only think of getting a self-fertile Kiwi  :unsure:

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2011, 14:29 »

Not a true climber, but how about a Goji berry bush and tie in the long branches?   Just a thought.  :blush:  Cheers,   Tony.
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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2011, 14:48 »
Forget the fruit.

Alderman peas! mmmmmmm.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2011, 15:21 »
Am I too late to sow Alderman peas?

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2011, 15:22 »
Hope not, mine have only been in a few days.

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2011, 15:25 »
Ok - well I'll try the peas, as I LURVE peas (and have a shiny new freezer sitting waiting to be filled with my glut...ah ever the optimist!). I thought I might try planting and training a couple of loganberries over it in the autumn - anyone had any experience with loganberries...?

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2011, 17:06 »
You can buy apples and pears and train them as cordons - it involves a little pruning - I saw this done by Geoff Hamilton on quite a scale and the show was recently repeated on Blighty - I think it was his organic kitchen garden series - unless of course you want the crops for this year in which case sorry ps Focus are selling fruit trees which can be used as cordons :)
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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2011, 17:36 »
redcurrents could be trained I'd have thought

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2011, 21:03 »
tayberries climb

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2011, 21:42 »
Alderman peas up one side and runner beans growing up the other side!!   :D :D

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Re: Climbing Food?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2011, 22:37 »
With time and patience you could train most dwarf fruit trees over it, I'd have thought, but it would take time. Outdoor cucumbers are pretty good at climbing too, albeit short lived. You could do a combination, have something pretty (like sweet peas) scrambling up quickly over a more permanent backbone of something slower growing, like trained fruit trees.

I did once have a beautiful passiflora in my garden that had started out climbing up a fence, then went berserk and ended up climbing about 25 or 30 feet up into old oak and ash trees that were alongside the fence. In flower it was stunning and it did have fruit every year. Sadly, one year it just simply gave up and died, no idea why, but it must have been pretty old.


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