{"id":55475,"date":"2015-05-17T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55475"},"modified":"2015-05-17T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T07:09:10","slug":"in-the-garden-merit-badge-beginner-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55475","title":{"rendered":"In the Garden Merit Badge, Beginner Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmgirlsisterhood.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/span><\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> now with\u00a06,399 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20149,095 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/10477\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">former life<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p>For this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmgirlsisterhood.org\/badges-mie-garden.asp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Make it Easy\/In the Garden Beginner Level Merit Badge<\/span><\/a>, I went shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Outside.<\/p>\n<p>In my yard.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe in my neighbor\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n<p>And by yard, I mean trash.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem. Hey, now, before you get all judge-y on me, farmgirls, (no, I am not advocating a Freegan Badge) remember this little nugget of truth:\u00a0A penny saved is a penny salvaged. Or is it:\u00a0A bird in the bush is worth two in the garden?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no matter. Whatever your personal mantra and creed is, your own yard (and your friendly neighbor\u2019s) is an excellent place to find all sorts of treasures to recycle\/upcycle\/DIY. Golly, I could probably have my own reality television show at this point. And an action figure.<\/p>\n<p>Wait. I AM an action figure.<\/p>\n<p>Well, anyway. Back to the show. My goal was this: Make a garden trellis out of material I could salvage\/find\/discover.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61410 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1280px-Lonicera_x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get all overwhelmed on me, chiclets\u2014this was going to be easy-peasy. (In fact, a pea or bean teepee was next on my list, to boot.) I had so many ideas, my head was swimming with them. You can make a trellis out of nearly anything \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old doors<\/li>\n<li>Pallets<\/li>\n<li>Fencing<\/li>\n<li>Bamboo (bonus points if this is actually growing in your garden; talk about double-duty)<\/li>\n<li>Antique headboard (so French chic)<\/li>\n<li>Old windows, with or without the glass<\/li>\n<li>Wire (mesh or cable)<\/li>\n<li>Chicken wire<\/li>\n<li>Saplings and vines<\/li>\n<li>Lattice<\/li>\n<li>PVC piping<\/li>\n<li>Antique mattress frame (the wire part, not the fabric part)<\/li>\n<li>Bicycle<\/li>\n<li>Bicycle or wagon tires (screwed into a post vertically)<\/li>\n<li>Old screen door<\/li>\n<li>Anything, really!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_55482\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55482\" class=\"wp-image-55482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/493px-Julien_Alden_Weir_The_Grey_Trellis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"437\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Grey Trellis,&#8221; by J. Alden Weir, 1891<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And now that you have a fabulous, unique, one-of-a-kind garden trellis, what to do with it? Well, you came to the right place, doll. Here are a few creepers (and by that, I do <em>not<\/em> mean a shady-looking character &#8230;\u00a0I mean some climbing plants) and crawlers that adore trellises almost as much as you do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flowering Jasmine<\/li>\n<li>Black-eyed Susan<\/li>\n<li>Snap Peas<\/li>\n<li>Beans<\/li>\n<li>Roses<\/li>\n<li>Honeysuckle<\/li>\n<li>Morning Glory<\/li>\n<li>Hyacinth Bean Vines<\/li>\n<li>Cucumbers or Zucchinis<\/li>\n<li>Twisting Snapdragons<\/li>\n<li>Climbing Nasturtium<\/li>\n<li>Raspberries or Blackberries<\/li>\n<li>Clematis<\/li>\n<li>Passion Flowers<\/li>\n<li>Petunias<\/li>\n<li>Canary Creepers<\/li>\n<li>Decorative Gourds<\/li>\n<li>Hydrangeas<\/li>\n<li>Squashes and Melons<\/li>\n<li>Glory Lily Bulbs<\/li>\n<li>Wisteria<\/li>\n<li>Sunflowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_55483\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55483\" class=\"wp-image-55483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Path_to_the_church_Lolworth_-_geograph_org_uk_-_1379662.jpg\" alt=\"Path_to_the_church,_Lolworth_-_geograph_org_uk_-_1379662\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Stephen McKay via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And did you know these fun facts about growing veggies on a trellis, as opposed to on the garden floor? The fruit and veg will be cleaner, better-shaped, take up less space, will be less discolored (no resting on the ground), easier to water, and easier to harvest.<\/p>\n<p>And this most important reason of all:<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s totes adorbs!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Try a trellis today. Don\u2019t go shopping for supplies, just use your imagination. Then get planting. You\u2019ll have the cutest, most functional garden on the block (of course, your neighbors might want their stuff back \u2026 let \u2018em share in the bounty instead). Happy DIY-ing, peeps.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with\u00a06,399 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20149,095 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! 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