Today on What’s Growing Episode #4, I am showing you an easy way to get those cantaloupe vines up off the ground! I am using a cattle panel and a garden fence upost. My cantaloupe vines were starting to spread out all over the place and get tangled with one another in the garden bed. I dedicated to move them vertically! Here’s the process of how I did it!

Garden Fence UPost from Lowes: https://www.lowes.com/pd/BlueHawkCo...

Cattle Panel, Wire Stock Panel, Steel Farm Fence Panel: https://www.lowes.com/pd/TarterActua...

This was a SUPER easy project, the Upost makes it easy! Let me know if you keep your cantaloupes on the ground or grow them vertically!

Hoping for a great harvest of cantaloupes this summer. Thanks for watching!
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I’m Jacki! A wife, mom and business owner. I homeschool 2 of my 3 boys! I’m so glad you are here and thank you for watching!

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Here’s a full list of all that I have planted in 2020:

For my front yard garden, my goal was to encourage pollinators to my yard! We had so much grass in the front yard I decided to make a large garden bed in a really sunny spot! The plants that I have planted in my front garden bed are:

Cantaloupes! I am experimenting to see how 2 of them grow vertically up a hot wire trellis that I made. The rest of the cantaloupe plants I left on the ground to grow horizontally. We’ll see which ones grow better!
Watermelon! My watermelon plant isn’t too happy but hopefully it will perk up soon!
Sweet potatoes! The sweet potato vines are growing up the teepee trellis that I made and it looks so pretty.
Sunflowers! I planted quite a few sunflowers up in the front garden and I can’t wait til they bloom!
Tomatoes! Minibell tomoto and black vernissage tomato. The tomatoes in the front garden are not very happy so we will see what happens with them.
Zinnias to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies!
Lavender! Maybe someday I’ll make my own essential oil haha.
Lantana flower, this one is supposed to be really great through hot seasons like the hot Austin Texas summer!

In my side garden there’s a few more plants that are doing really well. The plants on the side garden get a lot of sun!

Tomatoes! The tomato plant on the side yard is doing super good and growing like crazy!
Cucumbers! It has a bunch of small cucumber buds coming in, maybe I’ll get those cucumbers for making pickles after all!
Jalapeño peppers! A must for my Austin, Texas kitchen!
Sweet potatoes growing on the teepee trellis!
Sunflowers that are looking really great and already starting to bud!
Elderberry plant! There are elderberries on it already, I’m hoping to get enough elderberries to make my own elderberry syrup for immune support this year!
Strawberries! I think these may be wrapping up for the year.
Blue agave plant that I have not decided where to put yet!
Silver coin Eucalyptus plant! I forgot to mention this one but it is new, I’m excited to be able to cut it off for some fresh smelling eucalyptus in the house!
Sweet Corn these have some sprouts already coming up!
Summer Squash, I am doing a later summer garden and decided to plant more of these!
Blue Lake Bush Beans, heard these grow well in Texas Summer
Okra is also another that I heard would grow well in a Texas Summer Garden
Pumpkins! Hoping to have some large jack o’ lantern pumpkins for the fall!

What are some plants you are growing in your garden now?
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