I need some help planting my first rhizome here in SE TN. I am in zone 7 (7b but really close to 8a) and in a valley, so during the growing season I get lots of fog and/or heavy dew. I say fog or heavy dew about 60% of the time during the grow season and persists for the first 4 hours of light.
I think I would like to grow in a muck bucket buried in the mulch bed next to the house, and then train the bines horizontally to grow along a fence. Yea, I know vertically is easier but it is almost 45 ft to my roof on that corner of the house (and this portly guy does not like getting on ladders above 15 ft).
My concern is fungus, as I have lost several ornamental bushes in the past 3 years (none that I have planted).
I have 25 feet of angled wooden fence then even more distance where the corner of the fence surrounds the utility shed (not drawn) and trailer storage area.
Any thoughts on variety to be resistant yet grow well with mostly only morning sun and trainable to grow horizontally? I am just starting my research but my first inclination is towards Nugget.
I think I would like to grow in a muck bucket buried in the mulch bed next to the house, and then train the bines horizontally to grow along a fence. Yea, I know vertically is easier but it is almost 45 ft to my roof on that corner of the house (and this portly guy does not like getting on ladders above 15 ft).
My concern is fungus, as I have lost several ornamental bushes in the past 3 years (none that I have planted).
I have 25 feet of angled wooden fence then even more distance where the corner of the fence surrounds the utility shed (not drawn) and trailer storage area.
Any thoughts on variety to be resistant yet grow well with mostly only morning sun and trainable to grow horizontally? I am just starting my research but my first inclination is towards Nugget.