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New Gardener
I am a city girl-country gardener wantabe...
Stubbled onto SGG book at Lowe and purchased it. Read it in one day, and have made my first square the next day (yesterday). I am planning my garden now, and going to purchase the PVC etc... I am planning beans and need to make the vertical steel trellis...No specific instructions for construction challenged people in book...
Can someone help me???
Thank You!!
Stubbled onto SGG book at Lowe and purchased it. Read it in one day, and have made my first square the next day (yesterday). I am planning my garden now, and going to purchase the PVC etc... I am planning beans and need to make the vertical steel trellis...No specific instructions for construction challenged people in book...
Can someone help me???
Thank You!!
Joy- Posts : 2
Join date : 2010-03-07
Re: New Gardener
Hi Joy!
I made my first SFG last year and I had a lot of luck with a PVC trellis anchored to the outside of my box and held together with PVC elbows. It's also really cheap to do it that way. For the actual trellis, I used plastic fencing, although if I had to do it again I would use something with wider spacing. Good luck!
Jen
I made my first SFG last year and I had a lot of luck with a PVC trellis anchored to the outside of my box and held together with PVC elbows. It's also really cheap to do it that way. For the actual trellis, I used plastic fencing, although if I had to do it again I would use something with wider spacing. Good luck!
Jen
paynjk7- Posts : 3
Join date : 2010-03-07
Re: New Gardener
I know it's not as pretty as Mel's Trellice but you could use 6 foot tall t posts and hog wire. that would be strong enough to hold up pumpkins hehe. Take a T post and pound it in a foot. Use one on each side of the box and then tie up a panel of hog wire in between. It's a little more "rural" looking, but hey...it works.
SirTravers- Posts : 327
Join date : 2010-03-01
Age : 50
Location : Hobbs New MExico, Zone 7A/7B
Re: New Gardener
I originally built a trellis using PVC but it didn't hold up. For my 2nd attempt I used the electrical conduit set up Mel describes in his book. It was fairly simple. Get some 1' or 1.5' of 1/2" rebar and drive them into the ground next to (or even inside) your boxes. I bought 3 pieces of 10' long 1/2" steel electrical conduit at Lowes (or was it Home Depot?). It was very cheap. I bought four 1/2" steel electrical conduit 90 degree elbows (these just screw on with a philps head screwdriver). I cut all 3 pieces of conduit in half - giving me six 5' sections allowing me to make two 5'x5'x5' trellises. I found a nylon net in the garden section of Lowes 5'x8' for about $5 and secured it to the conduit with zip ties. Works great. If I can find a decent picture of it I'll post it.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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