Easy Trellises

[GoDawgs]

This morning I put up two trellises across the ends of two 4' wide beds for planting some pole beans. The trellises are really easy to make so I thought I'd share the process. It took 30 minutes to put the two up.

Each trellis is made with two t-posts, two long 1x1's, two 4' wide sections of field fence, four nails and baling twine:



The first step is pounding in the t-posts and tying one of the poles to each.



Then I bang a nail in each pole at the height where I want to hang the fence panel, then after the panel is hung it's tied to the pole.



The last step is hanging a second panel above the first one. I'm making it two panels tall because they're for pole beans. Just one panel and shorter t-posts would do for shorter stuff. Ta-daaaaa! Two trellises in 30 minutes.

[Moth1992]

Really nice! I like the idea of attaching the poles to the tposts.

[GoDawgs]

They're so easy to put up and take down, not to mention portable. I also do the long 18'ers like that using four or five t-post depending on how heavy the load will eventually be. Fortunately I have an unending free supply of those poles as the place where I get them would be burning them anyway. They come in on delivery trucks. Same with the pallets I use under the tomato buckets.

[bower]

It's amazing you can do the double height and not have to worry it'll blow over.
Just so windy here.

[GoDawgs]

@Bower , those t-posts won't be going anywhere! I just hope I didn't bang them in so far I'll have a devil of a time getting them out!

[Moth1992]

Im going to get some of those t posts at home depot. I was concerned they would not fit in my car but im just going to do your system and get shorter tposts and ziptie a couple 1x2"s and bamboo branches I dumpster dived.

I can then florida weave my maters

[zeuspaul]

I'll have a devil of a time getting them out!

I had a t-post puller that I got from Harbor Freight which broke after a few years of use. Now I use an earth auger mounted in a battery powered electric drill to bore next to the post and wobble the post and lift it right up. I also us the auger to drill a hole to in stall a post.

[GoDawgs]

I'll have a devil of a time getting them out!

I had a t-post puller that I got from Harbor Freight which broke after a few years of use. Now I use an earth auger mounted in a battery powered electric drill to bore next to the post and wobble the post and lift it right up. I also us the auger to drill a hole to in stall a post.

Thanks for that tip! I will have to look for one of those as a new Harbor Freight was just built and opened about 10 miles away. Currently I get stubborn t-posts out by loosening up the soil around them with the big steel tines of my broadfork. Pickles uses the water stream from a hose after first digging out a bit of soil from around the post. Removing them has been a lot easier since I started reminding myself not to pound them in overly far in the first place!

[Labradors]

Very Interesting . Thanks for the info!

Why must you pull them out? I have tall posts and use string to guide the tomato plants. We leave them up all year.

Linda

[zeuspaul]

I will have to look for one of those as a new Harbor Freight was just built and opened about 10 miles away.

I bought mine over ten years ago. I checked their site and did not see them. Amazon has a bunch all north of 50 bucks.

I leave mine in place for years which makes them very difficult to remove. There comes a time that the garden gets rearranged requiring their removal.

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[GoDawgs]

Very Interesting . Thanks for the info!

Why must you pull them out? I have tall posts and use string to guide the tomato plants. We leave them up all year.

Linda

The large trellises stay up all year. They're for pole beans, different squashes, etc. I can't grow tomatoes in the garden soil. There's some kind of bacterial wilt that kills them but harms nothing else. The bed end trellises get moved around or removed entirely as needed and that can happen easily.

Two days ago I pulled out all the leeks from their bed and this afternoon I'm going to put up a trellis down the middle of that bed. The sweet potatoes will be planted under it next week. A few years ago I tested that method and found they grow just as well and by keeping the vines on the trellis they're out of the way and not running everywhere. When the sweets come out at the end of summer, the trellis will come down as fall veggies go in.

[GoDawgs]

I bought mine over ten years ago. I checked their site and did not see them. Amazon has a bunch all north of 50 bucks.

Thanks for that info. Hmmm, for $50+ I might as well just keep loosening with the broadfork or better yet, pay attention when I bang 'em in!