I’m going to use some re-mesh and let the small watermelons grow thru to the top and they will lay on the braced remesh. I have them growing in one of my raised gardens, along the edge, so they will be “suspended” on the remesh. I’m going to do the same thing to the cantaloupe. My summer squashes and cucumbers will be using the remesh but going up. In fact my beans will be growing up on building wire. I’m using rebar for the tomatoes. My tomato growing in a “topsy turvy” died and so did the strawberries. I’m going to try it again, but this time the tomato with basil and lettuce. Only my salads, lettuces, herbs, and bulbs are not going to climb. I’m having a terrible time trying to grow a couple of the heirloom tomatoes. The rest of my seeds seem to be doing ok.
Over here I plant the Cantaloupe in the narrow flowerbed alongside the driveway and let them grow up the chain link fence. Same with the Cucumbers.
You sound clever! I saw an interesting use of an old piece of guttering - mounted along a fence, ends closed up and filled with soil to grow lettuce! I’m not doing it, but thought it was a clever use of something that might have otherwise been thrown away