Becky helped build this modest trellis that is submerged in spinach and houses underneath it tomatoes, bell pepper, and eggplant
Spinach- Another one better eaten cooked than raw? Michelle, Health Bar coworker and Engineer Masters Student Extraordinare by day and my unofficial Super Running Coach by really really early day (4:30am!!!), says this is a really good source of energy, when cooked. It just smothered this trellis pretty quickly. Pretty low maintenance plant.
Tomatoes- Haven't worked out great for us. The fruit hangs so close to the ground that the bugs seem to get to them before they even ripen and I think the plants may need something to climb on. They tend to get long and gangly, like King Triton when Ursula turns him into seaweed (it's the leaves of the plant, they look like his mustache!).
Out here, the manure we got from Momona Farms that has been sitting out decomposing for about 5 years or so really worked wonders. We do everything organically here so we need to infuse some more manure goodness into the soil every once and awhile. We're overdue.