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Originally Posted by PhilaGardener
Intriguing! I have seen supports like this for growing carnations and other flowers in greenhouses.
Over the course of the growing season, do the plants spread out to cover the entire surface of the panels on each level?
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Not quite. Of course it depends on how big your plants get. I start indoors real early, use my own homemade seed starter mix, flood them with light and pot up to air pruning pots. So by mid May I usually have 2 ft tall or better, bushy plants. My plants normally get to 7 ft tall, so the spread is close to that, I'd say between 5 and 6 ft across. The panels are 4 ft wide and a few branches will slightly overhang the sides. And even at that, it's only the ends of a few branches that make it that far in either direction. That's why I said you could fit 2 plants under each panel, so they would all be spaced 4 ft apart. The ends of their branches may mingle a bit, but negligible.