Have you ever used an arch trellis in your backyard garden? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:32 Why Do We Need to Move This Trellis? 1:41 Taking Down Our Arch Trellis 4:43 Picking a New Spot for Our Arch Trellis 5:08 Installing T-Posts for Our Arch Trellis 7:39 Adding Cattle Panels Between T-Posts 8:57 Showing the Completed Arch Trellis 11:17 What Can You Grow on a Trellis?
A little trick I learned with my cattle panel trellises, at the end of the season when everything is dry and dead, I use a big push broom to knock the old vines off instead of cutting them or hand pulling them. It's fast and efficient. Simply Sweep the trellises and they are ready for next season.
I made one over the entrance when you walk through the gate to my garden this year with a cattle panel and I am looking forward to seeing it covered with “groceries”! 😊
The cattle panels are great but I took it one step further. Built a 6 x 16 roof held up with 4 x 4 x 7 posts and 2 x 4 braces on 2 4 x4 ski's. (Pretty much shed with no floor or sheeting on it) Then stapled the fencing to it. The wood framing allows things like butternut to grow without caving it in. I cover it with tarps in winter and store my hoses and tools in there. Then in spring because my garden is 200 ft long, I put temp bracing in and pull it straight forward or backward to a new section with the ranger like you do with the chicken tractor. Eliminates the permanent problem.
Oh that sounds amazing!! Did you have to do any treatment for the ground contact wood? My one concern about something like that is longevity bc I've not had great luck with supposedly pressure treated wood made to be outside, they lasted maybe 3 yrs, but it couldve been a fluke experience. But that sounds like an ingenious setup, especially moving if needed with extra temp supports! Wait do you have an actual roof on it or cattle panels across?
We built a 10’x40’ cattle panel greenhouse this winter and just bought the cattle panels for a 50’ bean/squash/cucumber tunnel. We grew our cucumbers on a cattle panel trellis last year and loved it so we are expanding our garden this year. We will be growing some cucuzzi gourds, zucchino rampicante, bitter melon, luffa gourd and several other “new to us” things this year. I can’t wait!
Asparagus beans, burgundy, are absolutely beautiful ❤️ they hang down as you walk through. Also, cucamelons!! Those are tiny but mighty!! That make the most beautiful pickle's!! Since they're so odd you can get top dollar at the farmer's market. Thank you for sharing about the colorful zip ties that's genius!! What would we gardener's do without zip ties?!!😂
we grow all of our indeterminate tomatoes on a trellis like this. Its 16 feet long and we usually have around 30 plants on it. It easily covers the top of the trellis on both side. Very easy to harvest. Dont rotate, just amend the soil every year and companion plant with basil and marigolds. NEVER had a pest of disease problem. North Georgia mountains
@@h.s.6269 plant them on the outside of the trellis and just clip them as they grow. We grow brassicas and lettuce on the inside. Tomato's shade them from the summer heat
I put 6 Trellis. last summer for the first time ever! I was Shocked by not only the beauty of it, but the harvest that keep producing! So many green beans it was amazing! I also did sugar snap pea I had no idea they could grow that high! the vines and veggies were up and over the top, I don't think I will plant any other way now cucumbers also great crop also Kajari melons grew well small enough to not fall off the fine...
Create a shade house by throwing a shade cloth over the trellis and grow stuff like ripe (red, yellow, orange) bell peppers that are prone to sunburn inside the shaded area.
We grew butternut winter squash on this exact same type of trellis and it worked perfectly! We harvested 80 pounds of squash and it has lasted us all winter long.
I'm gonna be a "copy cat" and change my cattle panel configuration. I've been using mine horizontal but length wise. I like this idea better because it offers some shade on those 95 degree days. I still have a very high weed seed bank from years of traditional gardening. I purchased one of the BCS four foot mulch layers and finally got it adjusted correctly. I'm growing all my collards and cabbage on black plastic with drip laid beneath the plastic.
Cattle Panel Green house. I highly recommend to you and your viewers. They are a great setup and a bit more affordable for a gardener on a budget. There are many videos on TH-cam showing how to build them. Some are elaborate some are simple depending on one's budget. I enjoy your channel, cheers from Canada.
I grow luffa every few years! Different type of grocery, but they do come in handy as scrubbers for indoors and out. Kids might get a kick out it. They pretty well tend themselves. Very easy crop.
I did sweet 100s and and peppers. I've also done sweet potatoes because the vines and leaves are also edible and the trellis keeps them clean, I harvested all summer on the greens and still had great root crop at end of summer.
Mark at Self-Sufficient Me has grown everything you mentioned I believe, including the large squash and melon varieties. I'd check his vids for what's worked on the cattle panels. He has lots of light like you and a similar (if flipped) growing season. Thanks for all the great content, BTW, I'm really interested to see what you'll do with the panels this time.
I remember when you 1st built that trellis. You were still at Hoss and I commented that the trellis could be covered with plastic during the winter to make a covered space for some frost protection. I'm going to use a cattle panel to trellis my indeterminate tomatoes this year. But with the Panel laid out the long way and not arched.
We stake 2 panels running parallel and plant our tomatoes down the middle. As they grow, we place long 2x2s from one side to the other to support the limbs. No tying necessary. Works like a champ.
@@jsamford6547 With the assumption you do this for your indeterminate tomatoes, how far apart do you set up the panels and how far apart do you plant your tomatoes? Also, how much, if any, pruning do you do?
The closest thing to a trellis I used was with steel mesh for concrete hooked to an old clothesline where I added stronger wire for the clotheslines. English cukes, various melons, beans, ...
I am building this for this season for my tomatoes. I want to venture into winter growing, so maybe I’ll use it this winter if I can find something else to grow up here in Virginia that won’t die.
I do my cherry tomatoes on an arch every year, they do really great. Seems like they get better air flow or something because I can keep them around until frost this way with no disease which usually doesn’t happen in TN with tomatoes. Sometimes they will get wild later in the season but a lot of times I’ll just cut off the crazy limbs since they’re so big by then.
Hi Travis! Always love watching your channel. I use my tunnel for a shade structure to develop trees for my orchard. I plant malabar spinich on one part but most is dedicated to American bittersweet which I use for fall decorating or resale to local florists or give it away to friends and family.
I’m using the same setup. Last summer I ran sweet potato vines up it. Gave me a great place for shade in the summer. This year going to use containers for the sweet potatoes with the trellis.
Here in Minnesota we've been vertically growing crops of acorn & butternut squash, watermelon, jack-o-lanterns & other pumpkins. We've experimented with bungee cords & mesh laundry bags, pillow cases tied with a rock in the corner using bailing twine for small to medium sized items. For the 20+pounders like our Cinderella pumpkins, we support them with basket ball nets using multiple strings each tied with a taut-line hitch to take in or pay out line as is sometimes needed as the pumpkin gets wider or to keep the neck aligned as the stem gets thicker. We've had great results with cucurbits of course but also malabar spinach on our cattle panels. We do use 6 posts on each panel when we know we are planting with heavy crops. We secure the panels to the posts with thin stainless wire or copper coated welding wire (reduced corrosion) using lockwire pliers for quick and solid wire twisting and improvement over plastic cable ties. Growing vertically frees up a lot of surface area in our urban backyard garden for other crops and provides a fun shady sittin spot on a hot Summer day. I'd say the arches really help the formed leaf canopy to stave off powdery mildew as well. Love your channel sir!
A structure I have made for cherry tomatoes is t posts and woven wire fencing that I bought for cheap at a farm sale. I can have 100 foot rows of support and . My. Grand children absolutely loved be picking the Aries off the vertices structure and I grow a lot of veg in small space!
That is a great idea ! I think I am going to make one and grow some small melons. I made a trellis out pole cane that is really easy to move for my pole beans and cucumbers. I’m on my 5th year with it and I’m sure I have one more year, but it’s extremely easy and cost me only the twine and/or zip ties to build.
We grow some larger pumpkins on our trellis system we loosely zip tie the stem on each side of the pumpkin to add extra support have grown a 10kg pumpkin that way
I have done indetermined tomatoes on trellis like that. I can single or double stem them and they will climb with no real trouble. I like it better than the single string method.
I built a two panel archway and am growing Passionfruit. I have another single panel archway the I've used for long beans so far. But your tip about keeping the panels 6-8" off the ground was new to me! Great tip for the future. Thanks!
Luffas are my favorite to grow on this type of trellis. It creates shade for my kids when we are in the garden which is much needed in Central Arkansas.
Constructed these a few years ago - wish I had your tips about not putting all four post down ahead of time and the bottoms rusting if they touch the ground- ALL good advice - I learned the hard way on both of these matters! Cherry tomatoes do well on these for sure. Best crop has been max pack cucumbers and rattlesnake green beans.
Love this video... we're in the process of rebuilding our garden space (bad back... so taller beds and more of them) and I'm putting them back in and adding more. I'm adding flowers and medicinals this year... fragrant sweet pea flowers, climbing roses, passion flower does beautifully on a trellis... I'm going to try to trellis my sweet potato vines as well this year. they can get unruly and I think they'll be pretty. I believe you can eat them as well... never tried them.. not sure how they taste. My hope is that by training them up a trellis I can plant some beneficial companions with them or maybe just free up a little exposed ground to add more flowers? We'll see... experimenting is half the fun.
I have a trellis like that connecting some of my raised beds together. And crop rotation is indeed a pain sometimes. I have grown everything you mentioned including crimson sweet watermelons and cantaloupe. However the melons did need a bit of extra support. I had to fashion cradles or hammocks for them. Pantyhose and grocery bags both worked for me but is was a pain in the butt and don't recommend it unless you're just really hard up for space. Which at the time I was. Now I just give it a break if I need to
Instead of tie-wraps a more permanent way to tie the panels on you could use stainless wire. A .032 stainless wire would last a lifetime. Although it is a little more trouble to install, it will never rust and does not rot in the sun. Commonly called safety wire in the aviation industry, it is about $20 for a 1lb roll which is over 350 ft long. Since I'm in the industry it is what I go to a lot. Sort of my baling wire that we always had around the ranch when I was growing up.
Is there a math formula for pre-determining what the height of the tunnel will be if you change the distance between the ends at the ground? As opposed to buying a 16’ cattle panel and just experimenting?
i think they are a fab way of making a garden trellis, they last so well. As a english person i have to ask, whats an english pea? im assuming its a garden pea? the large ones?
Yes it's what you would call a "garden pea." We grow a lot of cowpeas or "field peas," which probably aren't very common over there. We call those peas and the others "English peas."
@@LazyDogFarm I never new cow bean were field beans! We call them Bread beans, they are common in home growers but that’s about it. Most people eat French beans and the French peas if they are not growing them. Or runner beans and garden peas if they are lol 😆 funny how we speak the same language but so different in many ways
T post puller? I have been using my son as the puller. Not kidding.i have never heard of it. I'm going shopping immediately. I just checked, it is not in your Amazon store. Help a sister out!! Could you use the off season trellis for pollinator flowers?
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
Hi Travis. Looks great. Are those yellow zip ties resistant to UV rays? It usually says on the package. The ones that aren't will get brittle on you. Easy enough to replace them as they age I guess. Cheers, Chuck in Jensen Beach.
I use cattle panels and t-posts just like you for beans and peas. Adding one this year for maybe cucumbers or melons. But I have mine straight along the ground about 4 inches up off the dirt. Is there a benefit to hooping them like you did besides just a couple extra feet for them to run?
Making an arch really helps with pole beans and cukes that will climb really tall. It also makes it nice to pick them in the shade once the foliage covers the entire arch.
Travis, did you identify which tater you have that isn't sprouting yet? My Caribe are not sprouting well. Sarpo Mira, Baltic Rose and Elba are well up and growing. I love growing vertical on hortinova and crop wire for heavier crops. Tasty Bites and Hannahs Choice cantaloupes.
I got my first tomatoes on march 7 and my first artichoke...hopefully it will have some meat on it.. CAN U PLANT SOME.ARTICHOKES AND TALK ABOUT THEIR CARE TO GET ACTUAL EDIBLE ONES...
I have used this trellising method with spaghetti and butternut squash. Buy some nylons from the dollar store and cut them up to make a sling for the fruit, tying them off to the panel. My largest individual spaghetti squash was 7 pounds, and was supported without a problem.
Just because certain plants do not clime, there's no reason to leave the area bare. Plant something that matures fast and plant something that climes a little later. HA, the student trying to teach the teacher. Thanks for all you do. OMG! I just noticed how I spelled climb.
All my rows run E to W. But that's just how I've got things laid out. It wasn't intentional. I've had other plots that were planted N to S and they did fine too.
Dang......I've known you since before you had silage tarps and a "bean tunnel" trellis! 🤣😂 You're getting old! Great job on the explanation and demo of constructing them. Just eat you an extra helping of greens and move the dang thing when you need to! The real "permanent" solution is to build a "sled" type setup with skid runners. You can pull that thing around with your ATV. I sold my 4 wheeler last year when I was about to build one, so I'm sticking to panels and poles.
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
Have you ever used an arch trellis in your backyard garden? Let us know!
SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees
0:00 Intro
0:32 Why Do We Need to Move This Trellis?
1:41 Taking Down Our Arch Trellis
4:43 Picking a New Spot for Our Arch Trellis
5:08 Installing T-Posts for Our Arch Trellis
7:39 Adding Cattle Panels Between T-Posts
8:57 Showing the Completed Arch Trellis
11:17 What Can You Grow on a Trellis?
Black Zipties last the longest in the sun, good point on color tho.
A little trick I learned with my cattle panel trellises, at the end of the season when everything is dry and dead, I use a big push broom to knock the old vines off instead of cutting them or hand pulling them. It's fast and efficient. Simply Sweep the trellises and they are ready for next season.
I made one over the entrance when you walk through the gate to my garden this year with a cattle panel and I am looking forward to seeing it covered with “groceries”! 😊
I started using Cattle Panels for growing vertically about 12 years ago.
I call them "Grow Arches" 😎
They've always done a great job.
The cattle panels are great but I took it one step further. Built a 6 x 16 roof held up with 4 x 4 x 7 posts and 2 x 4 braces on 2 4 x4 ski's. (Pretty much shed with no floor or sheeting on it) Then stapled the fencing to it. The wood framing allows things like butternut to grow without caving it in. I cover it with tarps in winter and store my hoses and tools in there. Then in spring because my garden is 200 ft long, I put temp bracing in and pull it straight forward or backward to a new section with the ranger like you do with the chicken tractor. Eliminates the permanent problem.
That's a great idea!
Oh that sounds amazing!! Did you have to do any treatment for the ground contact wood? My one concern about something like that is longevity bc I've not had great luck with supposedly pressure treated wood made to be outside, they lasted maybe 3 yrs, but it couldve been a fluke experience. But that sounds like an ingenious setup, especially moving if needed with extra temp supports!
Wait do you have an actual roof on it or cattle panels across?
We built a 10’x40’ cattle panel greenhouse this winter and just bought the cattle panels for a 50’ bean/squash/cucumber tunnel. We grew our cucumbers on a cattle panel trellis last year and loved it so we are expanding our garden this year. We will be growing some cucuzzi gourds, zucchino rampicante, bitter melon, luffa gourd and several other “new to us” things this year. I can’t wait!
Asparagus beans, burgundy, are absolutely beautiful ❤️ they hang down as you walk through. Also, cucamelons!! Those are tiny but mighty!! That make the most beautiful pickle's!! Since they're so odd you can get top dollar at the farmer's market. Thank you for sharing about the colorful zip ties that's genius!! What would we gardener's do without zip ties?!!😂
Tromboni squash if ya got the evil vine borers..
I set one up this year..definitely took 2 people..and a post pounder...
we grow all of our indeterminate tomatoes on a trellis like this. Its 16 feet long and we usually have around 30 plants on it. It easily covers the top of the trellis on both side. Very easy to harvest. Dont rotate, just amend the soil every year and companion plant with basil and marigolds. NEVER had a pest of disease problem. North Georgia mountains
Was it hard to train the tomatoes or did you just use clips?
@@h.s.6269 plant them on the outside of the trellis and just clip them as they grow. We grow brassicas and lettuce on the inside. Tomato's shade them from the summer heat
I need to make a trellis like yours. Heck I could use a few of them.
I put 6 Trellis. last summer for the first time ever! I was Shocked by not only the beauty of it, but the harvest that keep producing! So many green beans it was amazing! I also did sugar snap pea I had no idea they could grow that high! the vines and veggies were up and over the top, I don't think I will plant any other way now cucumbers also great crop also Kajari melons grew well small enough to not fall off the fine...
Create a shade house by throwing a shade cloth over the trellis and grow stuff like ripe (red, yellow, orange) bell peppers that are prone to sunburn inside the shaded area.
We grew butternut winter squash on this exact same type of trellis and it worked perfectly! We harvested 80 pounds of squash and it has lasted us all winter long.
When you give it a break you should plant some flowers like morning glories or something to make the garden attractive and attract the pollinators! 😉
I'm gonna be a "copy cat" and change my cattle panel configuration. I've been using mine horizontal but length wise. I like this idea better because it offers some shade on those 95 degree days.
I still have a very high weed seed bank from years of traditional gardening. I purchased one of the BCS four foot mulch layers and finally got it adjusted correctly. I'm growing all my collards and cabbage on black plastic with drip laid beneath the plastic.
Cattle Panel Green house. I highly recommend to you and your viewers. They are a great setup and a bit more affordable for a gardener on a budget. There are many videos on TH-cam showing how to build them. Some are elaborate some are simple depending on one's budget. I enjoy your channel, cheers from Canada.
I second the cattle panel greenhouse recommendation! We built a 10’x40’ greenhouse this winter and we are loving it.
I grew spaghetti squash on my trellis and helped them hang with old pantyhose around them tied to the trellis.
Y'all are fast. Those purple peas are now sold out!
Thanks Tom and I purchased 2 figs and some bean
Thanks Steve!
I grow luffa every few years! Different type of grocery, but they do come in handy as scrubbers for indoors and out. Kids might get a kick out it. They pretty well tend themselves. Very easy crop.
Miss your music at the end!
Love your videos!
Blackberries and Raspberries work good on the cattle panel also.
I did sweet 100s and and peppers. I've also done sweet potatoes because the vines and leaves are also edible and the trellis keeps them clean, I harvested all summer on the greens and still had great root crop at end of summer.
Mark at Self-Sufficient Me has grown everything you mentioned I believe, including the large squash and melon varieties. I'd check his vids for what's worked on the cattle panels. He has lots of light like you and a similar (if flipped) growing season. Thanks for all the great content, BTW, I'm really interested to see what you'll do with the panels this time.
I remember when you 1st built that trellis. You were still at Hoss and I commented that the trellis could be covered with plastic during the winter to make a covered space for some frost protection. I'm going to use a cattle panel to trellis my indeterminate tomatoes this year. But with the Panel laid out the long way and not arched.
We stake 2 panels running parallel and plant our tomatoes down the middle. As they grow, we place long 2x2s from one side to the other to support the limbs. No tying necessary. Works like a champ.
@@jsamford6547 Kind of like a giant tomato cage. 😃👍 I can totally see that working.
@@jsamford6547 With the assumption you do this for your indeterminate tomatoes, how far apart do you set up the panels and how far apart do you plant your tomatoes? Also, how much, if any, pruning do you do?
I am so glad you put this content out. I have been wanting to create a small trellis tunnel. This was perfect. Thank You for sharing.
Awesome idea for the vine veggies!!!
Appreciate the info on raising the cattle panel so it doesn’t rust!
Thanks fella
Our Dawgs have another easy schedule. Expect a re-peat on another championship.
Schedule definitely looks easy. We'll see how Beck does at QB. I'm excited to see our hometown boy Edwards get more carries at RB this year.
The closest thing to a trellis I used was with steel mesh for concrete hooked to an old clothesline where I added stronger wire for the clotheslines. English cukes, various melons, beans, ...
I am building this for this season for my tomatoes. I want to venture into winter growing, so maybe I’ll use it this winter if I can find something else to grow up here in Virginia that won’t die.
I do my cherry tomatoes on an arch every year, they do really great. Seems like they get better air flow or something because I can keep them around until frost this way with no disease which usually doesn’t happen in TN with tomatoes. Sometimes they will get wild later in the season but a lot of times I’ll just cut off the crazy limbs since they’re so big by then.
I did a cattle panel between two raised beds and planted yard long and cucumbers in the raised bed it is next to...
Made a 16' long one this year for cucumbers and blue lake pole beans. Can't wait to see how it works ☺️
Hi Travis! Always love watching your channel. I use my tunnel for a shade structure to develop trees for my orchard. I plant malabar spinich on one part but most is dedicated to American bittersweet which I use for fall decorating or resale to local florists or give it away to friends and family.
I’m using the same setup. Last summer I ran sweet potato vines up it. Gave me a great place for shade in the summer. This year going to use containers for the sweet potatoes with the trellis.
It’d be great for grapes and black berries also
I've grown both cucumbers and snap peas on mine and it works great. Great video
We just built a 6 cattle panel tunnel yesterday to grow our green beans on this year.
Ours sit on the ground but we do have weed barrier fabric down.
Here in Minnesota we've been vertically growing crops of acorn & butternut squash, watermelon, jack-o-lanterns & other pumpkins. We've experimented with bungee cords & mesh laundry bags, pillow cases tied with a rock in the corner using bailing twine for small to medium sized items. For the 20+pounders like our Cinderella pumpkins, we support them with basket ball nets using multiple strings each tied with a taut-line hitch to take in or pay out line as is sometimes needed as the pumpkin gets wider or to keep the neck aligned as the stem gets thicker. We've had great results with cucurbits of course but also malabar spinach on our cattle panels. We do use 6 posts on each panel when we know we are planting with heavy crops. We secure the panels to the posts with thin stainless wire or copper coated welding wire (reduced corrosion) using lockwire pliers for quick and solid wire twisting and improvement over plastic cable ties. Growing vertically frees up a lot of surface area in our urban backyard garden for other crops and provides a fun shady sittin spot on a hot Summer day. I'd say the arches really help the formed leaf canopy to stave off powdery mildew as well. Love your channel sir!
Thanks for sharing Pat!
We're actually trying this out this summer. We've used trellis before for cucumbers and various beans and peas, but nothing like this one
A structure I have made for cherry tomatoes is t posts and woven wire fencing that I bought for cheap at a farm sale. I can have 100 foot rows of support and . My. Grand children absolutely loved be picking the Aries off the vertices structure and I grow a lot of veg in small space!
That is a great idea ! I think I am going to make one and grow some small melons. I made a trellis out pole cane that is really easy to move for my pole beans and cucumbers. I’m on my 5th year with it and I’m sure I have one more year, but it’s extremely easy and cost me only the twine and/or zip ties to build.
Can also grow climbing flowers too
You could.
We grow some larger pumpkins on our trellis system we loosely zip tie the stem on each side of the pumpkin to add extra support have grown a 10kg pumpkin that way
I have done indetermined tomatoes on trellis like that. I can single or double stem them and they will climb with no real trouble. I like it better than the single string method.
I built a two panel archway and am growing Passionfruit. I have another single panel archway the I've used for long beans so far. But your tip about keeping the panels 6-8" off the ground was new to me! Great tip for the future. Thanks!
Luffas are my favorite to grow on this type of trellis. It creates shade for my kids when we are in the garden which is much needed in Central Arkansas.
Love this idea....seems one could convert this sructure to a green house over winter by putting clear poly over it!
You could certainly do that!
Constructed these a few years ago - wish I had your tips about not putting all four post down ahead of time and the bottoms rusting if they touch the ground- ALL good advice - I learned the hard way on both of these matters! Cherry tomatoes do well on these for sure. Best crop has been max pack cucumbers and rattlesnake green beans.
Love this video... we're in the process of rebuilding our garden space (bad back... so taller beds and more of them) and I'm putting them back in and adding more. I'm adding flowers and medicinals this year... fragrant sweet pea flowers, climbing roses, passion flower does beautifully on a trellis... I'm going to try to trellis my sweet potato vines as well this year. they can get unruly and I think they'll be pretty. I believe you can eat them as well... never tried them.. not sure how they taste. My hope is that by training them up a trellis I can plant some beneficial companions with them or maybe just free up a little exposed ground to add more flowers? We'll see... experimenting is half the fun.
I started using that style trellis for my pole beans last year. I'll never use anything else.
Love the information you share! Thank you
I grow 30+ pound black diamond watermelon on mine, works just fine with a melon sling.
Morning Glorys
Great video. Have been thinking about building this trellis and your video helped make up my mind. New subscriber here. ❣️
I have a trellis like that connecting some of my raised beds together. And crop rotation is indeed a pain sometimes. I have grown everything you mentioned including crimson sweet watermelons and cantaloupe. However the melons did need a bit of extra support. I had to fashion cradles or hammocks for them. Pantyhose and grocery bags both worked for me but is was a pain in the butt and don't recommend it unless you're just really hard up for space. Which at the time I was. Now I just give it a break if I need to
Can you show the trellises that are easier to move? Thanks
Instead of tie-wraps a more permanent way to tie the panels on you could use stainless wire. A .032 stainless wire would last a lifetime. Although it is a little more trouble to install, it will never rust and does not rot in the sun. Commonly called safety wire in the aviation industry, it is about $20 for a 1lb roll which is over 350 ft long. Since I'm in the industry it is what I go to a lot. Sort of my baling wire that we always had around the ranch when I was growing up.
We just got that same puller from tractor supply and I believe it was $55
Still worth it tho
Luffa sponges or Minnesota Midget melons
Is there a math formula for pre-determining what the height of the tunnel will be if you change the distance between the ends at the ground? As opposed to buying a 16’ cattle panel and just experimenting?
I'm sure there is. But it's probably faster to just press one side of the panel against a wall to see how far apart you need the posts to be.
i think they are a fab way of making a garden trellis, they last so well. As a english person i have to ask, whats an english pea? im assuming its a garden pea? the large ones?
Yes it's what you would call a "garden pea." We grow a lot of cowpeas or "field peas," which probably aren't very common over there. We call those peas and the others "English peas."
@@LazyDogFarm I never new cow bean were field beans! We call them Bread beans, they are common in home growers but that’s about it. Most people eat French beans and the French peas if they are not growing them. Or runner beans and garden peas if they are lol 😆 funny how we speak the same language but so different in many ways
great idea doing an awesome job with your channel not sure why you charge so much for those fig trees!
Our fig tree prices are competitive with other online vendors for the varieties we offer and the size of tree we ship. Glad you like our content!
How far apart do you space the Christmas bean seeds?
Usually about 3-4"
T post puller? I have been using my son as the puller. Not kidding.i have never heard of it. I'm going shopping immediately. I just checked, it is not in your Amazon store. Help a sister out!! Could you use the off season trellis for pollinator flowers?
You could use the trellis for flowers. Find a Tractor Supply store near you and they should have a t-post puller.
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
I have a question. Does it make a difference as to the direction you set the trellis so as to get the best sun exposure evenly?
It could. All of our plots are mostly in full sun, so I haven't found that it matters here though.
Can you use that for tomato trellising? Maybe as a rotation of the crop?
You could.
Hi Travis. Looks great. Are those yellow zip ties resistant to UV rays? It usually says on the package. The ones that aren't will get brittle on you. Easy enough to replace them as they age I guess. Cheers, Chuck in Jensen Beach.
They seem to be. I've been using that brand from our local hardware store for a while now. They have them in just about any color you could imagine.
Would that trellis hold up to having grape vines?
Definitely
Great idea! Just wondering if you have grown the Asian red and green yard long beans. They will grow well in this trellis
I grew them many years ago. They would work very well on a trellis like this.
I use cattle panels and t-posts just like you for beans and peas. Adding one this year for maybe cucumbers or melons. But I have mine straight along the ground about 4 inches up off the dirt. Is there a benefit to hooping them like you did besides just a couple extra feet for them to run?
Making an arch really helps with pole beans and cukes that will climb really tall. It also makes it nice to pick them in the shade once the foliage covers the entire arch.
Travis, did you identify which tater you have that isn't sprouting yet? My Caribe are not sprouting well. Sarpo Mira, Baltic Rose and Elba are well up and growing. I love growing vertical on hortinova and crop wire for heavier crops. Tasty Bites and Hannahs Choice cantaloupes.
Elba was the one that is slow, but it's coming along now. We'll have an update on a video next Friday.
How long are those panels?
16' long I believe.
I got my first tomatoes on march 7 and my first artichoke...hopefully it will have some meat on it..
CAN U PLANT SOME.ARTICHOKES AND TALK ABOUT THEIR CARE TO GET ACTUAL EDIBLE ONES...
I have used this trellising method with spaghetti and butternut squash. Buy some nylons from the dollar store and cut them up to make a sling for the fruit, tying them off to the panel. My largest individual spaghetti squash was 7 pounds, and was supported without a problem.
How deep do you pound the t~post in the ground
Usually 8-12"
Just because certain plants do not clime, there's no reason to leave the area bare. Plant something that matures fast and plant something that climes a little later. HA, the student trying to teach the teacher. Thanks for all you do. OMG! I just noticed how I spelled climb.
Great info in this video. Thank you! Just curious... You don't give free shipping on the seeds?
It costs us $4.00 to ship an envelope of seeds USPS First Class, so that's what we charge. We don't profit from shipping.
Did you orient east west or north south? Just curious if on side ends up lacking enough sunlight once it starts to fill in?
All my rows run E to W. But that's just how I've got things laid out. It wasn't intentional. I've had other plots that were planted N to S and they did fine too.
You have some seeds hanging in that trellis already, heirloom landrace survivors.
Dang......I've known you since before you had silage tarps and a "bean tunnel" trellis! 🤣😂 You're getting old! Great job on the explanation and demo of constructing them. Just eat you an extra helping of greens and move the dang thing when you need to! The real "permanent" solution is to build a "sled" type setup with skid runners. You can pull that thing around with your ATV. I sold my 4 wheeler last year when I was about to build one, so I'm sticking to panels and poles.
Maybe some sweet patatoes would do well
Its all fun and games until your posts hit a rock or tree root.
Very true. Fortunately for us, our garden plots don't have either of those.
Well dang...peas are sold out.
I grew sugar babies, cantaloupe and honeydew on my cattle panels last year. They don’t make it to the top but it worked well
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
I live in central Florida and put in my first in ground garden. Now I have a lot of work to go but what cover crops would you recommend for me to grow in my sandy soil ?
Depends on whether you're wanting a cool season or warm season cover crop. Check out Green Cover Seed's website. They have lots of good stuff.