Hey, I want to know about this, too! I have a small rose that I rescued from the ground (that is, what remained of it after someone decided to uproot it and trash it) and put into a container. I remember seeing it bloom once a few years back, and I liked it. It's in a much better location now and very happy, but it seems to think it's a climber (maybe it is, who knows?), so I want to fix it up with something that I can tie it to or train it on.

I have a bunch of photo's of my veggie container trellis.
Look at the 2006 photo section on the link I provided.

Here is a link that might be useful: Click this link to see my container garden

el34, you have a great container garden.
Could you share recipe for soil and fertilizing schedule for veggies? I want to start growing cucumbers & tomatoes in containers but i am new to this area.

could you do the same with flowers in buckets?

Awesome idea, e134. Perhaps I'll try something like that.

Thanks all, It worked out very well for the 5 gallon bucket veggie garden. In fact, I have expanded the trellis for 2007.

The juliet toms in last years photos grew 3 or 4 feet taller than the trellis. Probably 12 feet or so I would guess when they finished up.

Galcho, My soil was Sta-Green store bought container soil sold in 3 cubic foot bags at Lowes. You want a very loamy, fluffy container soil and lots of holes in the buckets.

I fertilized every two weeks with Miracle grow at the rate of one teaspoon per gallon. You have to look at the miracle grow packages to find the ratio.
They sell some that are 36-6-6, which is great for leafy veggies like spinach and lettuce but not for tomatoes. Then they have others that are 6-12-6, so you have to make sure you look at the package.

I also mixed up epsom salts and dumped that into the buckets maybe once every 4 weeks? I think the Epsom salt mix was 3 teaspoons per gallon, can't remember.

thank you, el34. I'll check what StarGreen contains.
One more question: looks like you are pruning tomatoes. Right? what about cucumbers? do you prune them?

I pruned the Juliet tomes by just removing suckers. I basically had one long cetral branch.
I made a note last year to maybe try to get 2 or 3 branches on some of the Juliets and not let them get so tall.

The cuc's mixed with the toms worked well cause the cucs put out horizontal branches. This worked well cause they seemed to fill in the gaps that the juliet toms did not fill in. The toms drop their lower leaves and so all you have is a bare tom vine on the lower part of the trellis.

They were not fighting for a spot in the sun this way.

I staggered my trellis like this last year and it workec out great.
Juliet tom - Diva cuc - Juliet tom - Diva cuc - Juliet tom - Diva cuc - Juliet tom

This year I am adding one more of each to the back line trellis.

I'm not sure if this will work in your situation but last summer I made a system of free standing tomato cages out of scrap wood, 5' 2x2s held together with whatever scraps I had laying around. It worked out well and they withstood some pretty severe T-storms. They don't look so well but no one but me ever goes up there anyway. :-)

This year I'm expanding the tomato patch to 12 plants and the cage will be secured onto a frame that will help cool the containers during the hottest days in the summer.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:11634}}

I don't know if you can find these in your parts, but I would look into hog/cattle panels. They are made of metal, which might be better for your tomatoes (can take the weight).

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Mea, I checked out your pictures, and I love your ideas. Your garden is amazing.

Seahorse, I'm not sure what cattle panels are. However, my father-in-law is a cattle farmer, so I shall look into that as well.

Thank you guys for all the great ideas!