5 Vegetable Vines for Your Garden

Vegetable vines are a great way to add a beautiful and fruitful plant in available garden space, creating dimension and adding height to the garden. Vegetables that grow on vines are numerous, and growing them is as easy as growing any other plant. The space that they require is either reduced or increased by the way each vine grows, but because they are climbers, it is easier to add them to unused corners of the garden and train them to grow in the space that is unused.

Try growing these five vegetable vines to create a vertical element in your garden that will produce fruit and the occasional flower.

Pole Beans
Pole beans are one of the easiest types of vegetable vine to grow in the garden, basically able to be left on its own as long as it has something to grow along, rich soil and adequate water. Considerable space is necessary for growing a good crop of beans, but if you are looking to add a plant for ornamental purposes, one to two plants will provide a nice screen of cover over a trellis, stake or other structure.

Snap Peas
Like beans, peas are another pod bearing vegetable that grow on vines. Plant peas in your garden from early spring through fall, from seed and sow again and again. Pea plants will produce dainty white to yellow flowers that look great in any type of garden. If you only have a container or flower garden space that you want to add a vine that adds beauty and is productive, this is a great choice.

Cucumbers
Cucumbers are aggressive spreading vines that require a lot of empty ground space over which to spread out. The vine can be trained to grow up along a vertical element, but it must be tied off and redirected along the way if you want to ensure that it stays in place. The cucumber vine produces tiny yellow flowers right before it begins producing fruit, so watch those areas for budding fruit that is going to need support on a fence or cleared ground space to grow.

Melons
There are several different types of melon plants that all grow in vine form and are easy to grow in the garden. Cantaloupe and sugar baby watermelon vines are particularly easy to grow and provide for in the vegetable garden or a mixed flower garden. Add some seeds to a flower garden or vegetable patch that has a lot of empty ground space and the vine will spread itself out around other plants.

Pumpkins
Pumpkin vines take a dedicated garden bed, or a large corner of the garden to set them up in, and spread out. Pumpkins are going to take over any open space that they can find, so be ready for their thick vines, huge leaves and then the joy of finding a pumpkin growing under all that green at some point. Be sure to provide these vines with plenty of water that is added directly to the soil, but avoid wetting leaves as much as possible.

Do you grow vegetable vines in your garden?