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Article: Summer vines bring big returns on a small investment.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2005
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Byline: MARY REID BARROW
By Mary Reid Barrow
The Virginian-Pilot
WHEN I MULL over winter seed catalogs, I am not looking for tomatoes and other vegetables like everyone else. I'm trying to decide which vines I will grow for the summer. I have a small yard and vines make my yard much bigger. I can go up since I have no more room to go out, a huge asset, but what really endears vines to me is the way they grow.
They coil their stems around structures, they reach out with tendrils ready to corkscrew around the first thing they touch and they hang on for dear life with holdfasts, like suction cups. We call them "climbers."
Everyone has perennial vines that ...