Consider using Grapes to create shade on your pergola structure!
Edibles for Height and Verticality
Espalier a dwarf apple, pear, or peach to soften and add interest to a flat, sunny wall. Embrace native elderberry, blackberry, gooseberry, and currants along a brambly nature trail. Train juicy table grapes over a garden gate arbor or patio pergola. For a quick, eight-foot screen, grow some sweet corn or pole beans. The great Native American planting trio taught to settlers can be honored with sweet corn, pole beans, and
This is a good start. Another winner is the banana trees. These things were the only survivor that lived in the 1990's real "BIO DOME"--not the one with Pauly Shore...google it. They are a tough as nails type of plant and should be a first in the landscape--anyone can do it. Be ready to prune dead leaves regularly and also purne new pups or let them grow into a larger tree.
These trees can be planted in a full sun location to recieve optimum conditions. Shade can never kill them, but it can limit the chances of new fruit. Mid-day to afternoon sun is optimum. Fertilizer can be given to these things at anytime. Fertilizer is anything, btw. Grass clippings?---YES...old food?--duh....purchased fertilzer works just fine too. I'm one of those orgaic kind of people so, I buy poop. But, the poop I get is so expensive that I don't give that to my bannans. They are one of the biggest eaters, which means it's hard to 'burn' them with fert. Give it whatever you got--it's allllll good, Sampson.
Use your gorgeous bananas as an accent plant shown in the pic above. They can also be used as a background feature or a screen between unwanted sights. As said orginially, prune new 'pups' off of root system right at ground level if you do not want them to get thicker. You can focus all energy on a few stalks. However, after they flower your stalk will die, so make sure and have at least one new pup come up to produce new fruit and offspring!!
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