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Inspect Existing Trellis Structure

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DIY Garden Ideas: Garden trellis..simple, easy, affordable and effective!

What happens here

The presenter shows an already installed section of the trellising system. This consists of T-posts firmly driven into the ground at intervals along the garden row. Cattle panels (heavy-gauge wire fencing with large square openings) are attached horizontally between these T-posts. He demonstrates the sturdy nature of the panels and how they are held by the T-posts. He notes that the cattle panel is strong enough for heavy plants and provides an ideal surface for tendrils to grab, making it suitable for a variety of climbing vegetables.

Goal: Observe the installed T-posts and cattle panels that form the foundational support for the trellising system.

Tools and materials

  • Cattle Panels
  • T-posts

What they say

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show you what we're doing so folks right down here is our row of cucumbers and here is our trellis system and these are those panels that I was telling you about and basically we're just zip tying them to the post now you can see here I've supported the panel up off the ground so we'll put about three zip ties per post and we put our post probably every four feet right here and that's how we'll be supporting our tomatoes and our cucumbers and much everything in the garden this year and you can see leftover vines from last year now guys if you're new to the vlog you may not know that I'm a big fan of zip ties I found a lot of uses for zip ties and this is just one of the many uses we're just going to zip tie in three places on each post nice and snug up against this post and we'll go all the way down the line and then we'll come back and we'll snip off our ends so it looks nice and neat and that'll be our garden trellis let's go over here and I'll show you how we start the trellis will start the first panel I'll show you how it all starts out it's really simple and it's something that you can do on your own by yourself pretty cool let's go

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