How to Build An Arched Trellis for 30 Dollars | Vertical Gardening

Almost every time I share something from my garden, I get asked the same question. Hi, how do you make those

arched

trellis

es? So today we will show you when we start planning our garden. I knew we were going to make it high. beds and in that I wanted to make sure that we could utilize the space as much as possible. I've seen something on Pinterest where someone built an arch out of a fence, but I knew I wanted to be able to plant something heavy. things like melons and I got to thinking about what we had around our farm and I knew we had some cattle panels that led to this, so how much does this cost?

First, you need a livestock panel that is 18 feet long. around 20 to 25

dollars

, you can call to find the best deal. We found one place in particular here in town that has them for $19.99, which is about six

dollars

cheaper than some of the other local grocery stores and if you're buying several. of them, that adds up, the other thing you're going to need is two T-posts, also something that's sold by the store, but you know, on the high end, you're looking at about five dollars each, we use T-posts from six feet. for these, but you might know a little bit, you could use a 7 foot five foot, but it would probably work about the same and the last thing you need is some zip ties, you could probably use some type of fastener as well, the zip ties are cheap and easy and the We have had them here for two seasons and they have not failed us.

Another benefit of zip ties is that they are very easy to remove, so if you want to move the bow, you can do so. Generally, what you're looking at for one of these arch

trellis

es is something between $30 and $35, pretty affordable. You will also notice that our cattle panels are on raised beds which means To start with we are about a foot off the ground so as you can see our arches are much higher according to my lovely models here these are men of over six feet and there is plenty of head room for them, however if I had these trellises on the ground they wouldn't be as tall, although I think they would still be tall enough for full size people to walk on so far.

I have grown many things on these trellises. I really like the

vertical

gardening

option because it really expands. In this space that you have, it's easy to pick things up when they're up and it's beautiful to grow them this way, real quick, let's take a look at our trellises and I'll just show you some of the things that I'm currently growing in my garden or in the trellises I'm showing you how to

build

. These are scarlet beans, lima beans, here are some green and yellow beans down here, we have some pickling cucumbers and some slicing cucumbers right here. it's a big winter squash called cream inca protected and it's actually a planted seed and it spreads all over this trellis here are some dried beans you can see them on this trellis we have two different types of melons here on this side there's a banana Knowing, and if you grow large melons like this on a trellis, you just have to offer some support.

Some people use produce bags, some people use pantyhose, and then this side is a much smaller collective melon farm. There is another small staff in this one. large size melon called kajari, as you can see, there is quite a lot of it and they are doing very well, just hold on, we have noodles down here. I have a variety of tomato called climbing triple crop that is said to grow up to 14 feet. So I went ahead and tried it on one of these trellises. So far, we're only at the end of June and it's already way up.

I think it will probably reach the top of the trellis this year and it gives it the perfect support because this is very, these are very loaded plants and again on this trellis I have a couple of different types of cucumbers, as you can see, there are some pickling cucumbers and here some Armenian whites and my last arch trellis here has some beans on this side that are kind of a runner type bean and then on this side I have some very young Keuka melons, but they will grow wild and cover this side as well. We actually already have 13 arch trellises in our very large garden. but we went and got one more cattle panel for the last space we could put one in because I really wanted to make a video to show you how we put them together because we get asked about it so much that my handy farmer husband has incurred an injury he had to catch a goat, so it is recovering.

We're waiting to hear some results on that and hope it's not a big deal, so we've asked Daniel to come from next door to drop these off. T posts so he can take this video and we can show you how to do this. You smart guys, teamwork makes sleep work well, so this is going to be the same whether you're doing this in raised beds or it's the same process. You're going to go ahead and drop your first key post into the ground with the notches facing you. you want to leave a little bit of room here with a raised bed because we are going to lower the panel and you want to have room to plant it inside a little tip: don't go too high with this because if you do it will come down and blow you up in the hay so we have a T post stuck into the ground and we just fitted this cattle panel and this is usually a two person job and you start folding it down and we're going to put it on the other side.

At this point, one person holds this cattle panel in place while the other person puts the end of the T-post on but sits upright against it. Remember we're leaving space here between the panel and the bed because we want to be able to plant our plant on the inside of that panel and now we're going to drive. this post is right there and secured, so now it's secured between here and now we just want to line it up and make sure that the T post is pretty much in the middle of the panel and at this point we'll just go ahead and secure that cattle panel to the T post on both sides with flanges, it's not really an exact science for this, say you want to talk about what kinds of appetizers are.

I think I just made it up. Fabio beö class - 72 yeah you're good at improvising that's probably like some kind of note to them but I don't care they're guys at Pies IBAMA Depot we got a thousand for 20 bucks and we probably used like 500 of them and our cars They are, but you can't. zip ties instead of bullets, I only use twelve lip zip ties at this point, we could plan that out. I'm going to wait for the fall planting, obviously, I already have enough things growing for this summer, but they are very easy to do at the end of the year.

Every time your growing season is over, if you are planning to reconfigure your garden, you already know to change where things are planted, these are very easy to remove, you can lay the cattle plant panels horizontally and put them back on. next year or if I want to leave them, they are doing well. We've had a couple of ours that have been up for a couple of seasons and some of them we took down and then put back up this year, that's just preference and however you plant your garden. whatever works for you and very briefly, I'll just show you a couple of other ways we use livestock panels.

Here we took some cattle panels and cut them into thirds, put two of the pieces together and fastened them at the top with a zip tie and glued here is another tipi used exactly the same way with Keuka melons on one side and tomatoes on the other. Here we have taken just one long cattle panel and used three T-posts to hold it. peas grown on this right now it has a couple of beans and at the end a Q more cattle panel pieces are coming here these are just some smaller poles they have tomato plants and this is just one piece which is actually 1/3 of a panel we put up a couple of months ago and here are the trellises we made for our tomatoes this year.

I made another video showing how they are made. These are cattle panels and there are long paths, but they're about 18 inches underneath so they're attached to these T posts about 18 inches up so they have more

vertical

room for the tomatoes to climb up, that's it, this one. It is a great way to add functionality to your garden through vertical

gardening

, eliminates diseases. you make it easier to harvest things because they are right in front of you and add a lot of beauty to the garden and with livestock panels it is relatively easy to do and quite affordable so I hope it helps someone and we'll see.

Guys, next time, happy gardening.