Ok I loved the topic of growing up as well as out in the garden. The upside down tomato has my wheels spinning already! Aside from pole beans and growing cucumbers up a trellis there's one more that I've done. Have you ever heard of whipping okra plants to get them taller? I found out quite by accident that an okra plant is a pole just waiting to grow over your head!

My aunt used to talk about whipping the okra so it would be tall enough to pick and not get so itchy and cramped from being bent over amongst the hairy little plants. I figured if she could get them a little taller I could get them tall enough for me...I'm 6 feet tall. Well after hacking them down low they grew some. I did it again and got more than I bargained for. My okra ended up 6 to 8 feet tall and had to be picked twice daily. At the end of their run I had monster sized poles that were as stiff as yucca poles. Talk about a great way to get free poles for pole beans!

 I'm thinking about building a very open frame over the area that's going to be my veggie garden when I start it just to do the upside down tomatoes and to run trellace and ropes for various climbers to use. Might as well use all the space available and not just the ground.