New Trellis in Garden
I remember Will Allen of Growing Power visiting my sunroom over 2 ˝ years ago and saying how much growing room I had in my 8’ X 10’ sunroom. He was talking about vertical growing space, growing up and down in the room. I have done a few things with this space, like add a growing shelf below the GP box and hang a few plants from the ceiling. But I have kept this thought of using vertical growing space in mind. Last year my friend Andor built two vertical growers for the garden. They worked well growing plants like beans or cucumbers that grow up on a trellis, growing plants like salad greens in the box, and producing tea for fertilizer. I have just set up the two vertical growers this year and planted seeds on the two sides of one of them. This year I have taken the vertical growing idea one step further in the garden. Observing how a friend in Wild Rose, WI had grown pole beans on the fence in his garden, I built myself a crude wire climber over one of my raised beds. Like the construction of my sifter, my handiwork leaves something to be desired, but the vertical growing device will work. The last few years I grew pole beans along the side of the garage. However, this new grower should increase the quantity and quality of the beans to be grown. Also, it can be used for other vertical growing plants like cucumbers. Hopefully in a few months this new trellis will be full of food and will need to be strengthened with more wooden poles. Vertical Growing can also go downward as with the plants hanging in the sunroom or planters on hooks along the fence around the garden. Up or Down, Vertical Growing is the way to get more production out of the same amount of space.
Last week I put on my posting my brief homily contribution to our community homilies for church liturgies yesterday and today. It was called Blessed Trinity and a Worm. I gave the homily yesterday evening and this morning at Church. I did not stick around for a response last night but did today. The response was very positive, and as one elderly gentleman said the simple analogy offered some insight. I need to share this brief homily with Father Purcell S.J. my speech teacher when I was in the Jesuits, Society of Jesus. The homily, as with some of these postings, contains the art of observation which he taught me, as well as some Ignatian Spirituality, particularly the First Principle and Foundation of the Spiritual Exercise, which leads to “Finding God in All Things.”
In a way this type of spirituality in this simple homily expressed another way of vertical growing to get more, by, through awareness, going deeper into something. A rough quote attributed to someone in Ignatian Spirituality I heard once goes something like this: “If you probe anything to its depths you will discover God.” Vertical growing, up or down gives us more from the same space, inside our outside.
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