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Re: SqFt Planting Spaces

Do you have any disease problems (like mildew) with growing squash or
beans in a lawn area (because of the overhead watering from sprinkler
systems)?  I am going to plant corn, beans, butternut squash,
cantaloupe and Sunburst squash in my front lawn area this year.
(There is no grass there anymore, and I'd rather use the area for
veggies than for useless grass.  I never seem to have enough space
for my veggie and flower garden.)

Also, do you find that the teepee system for pole beans is better
than the trellis.  I always have a hard time putting up trellises.
They always kind of droop on me.  Can you just grow pole beans
literally up straight poles or do you need to teepee or use an A
frame?

Thank you.



> For vining plants that we don't feel like trellising (pumpkin, lg.
> zucchini/acorn squash) and for pole beans that we grow up a teepee instead
> of in a SF trench, we dig small circles out of our lawn and plant in them.
> The vines just wander on the lawn and we don't have to worry about
> reserving a hole 4 x 4 plot or a 3x3 foot section out of our square foot
> grid for them.
>
> Natalie McNair-Huff
> Happily Gardening in Tacoma, WA Sunset zone 5; USDA Zone 7/8
> Publisher/Editor Mac Net Journal http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/
>
>
Kim Kiernan
kimk@pacbell.net
Laguna Hills, So. California

zone 9, Sunset zone 22/23
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