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Looking for suggestions on what varieties and types of veggies/fruits to grow on cattle panel arches and vertical panels.
I am in Zone 7a/b in North Alabama so high humidity and hot hot hot.
Perennial ideas are good.
What I have is 4 raised beds where I will install cattle panel arches (6 total - two side by side).  Will grow yard long beans and bitter melon but have room for other suggestions.
I also have a long concrete block raised bed where I have 11 vertical panels that vary from 6 foot to 8 foot tall.
I am thinking of some tomatoes if I can ever get them to vine right and different types of squash (summer and winter).  Have room for a lot of suggestions here.
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Raised beds for Arches
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Squash usually don't tend to climb for me but I can force them up a trellis.  I do pretty well with butternut and spaghetti.

Gourds (luffa, birdhouse) climb readily and should like your longer season.
 
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Same climate, same questions--I'm about an hour north of you, on a tiny shady urban lot!

I'm trying to grow apple and peach trees, as well as berry varieties, in pots, on my driveway. (Self-watering containers are AMAZING!)  Due to the incredible amount of deer in town, I learned I will have to fence my property if I want to harvest any berries. I don't know yet if they will go after the trees in the spring!

My grapes and hardy kiwis utterly failed in 2021, but I did not work too hard with them, so that's probably why.

Gardening author Barbara Pleasant has lived in Alabama for many years--I buy every book with her name on it for hints on what to grow and how to grow here in the South.
 
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