This video is a complete DIY install guide on how to build the best container garden trellis ever! This garden trellis is easy and inexpensive to build, and it is strong enough to keep your potted plants from blowing over in typical windy conditions.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Reasons To Build A Container Gardening Trellis
2:08 Garden Trellis Materials List
3:04 My Trellis Design Explained
6:10 How To Attach The Aircraft Cable To The T-Posts
10:27 Removing Cable Slack With Turnbuckles
11:04 Securing The Trellising Cable Safely
12:21 Increasing Trellis Strength
13:33 Final Results
15:23 Adventures With Dale
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29 Comments
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Maybe a third T-post halfway between the end ones would have helped with the slack and added some extra support.
Wow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌱🌿
For the trees that you keep in #15 containers, do you periodically root prune them so that you won’t have to move them to a larger container? I’m very comfortable with pruning the above ground growth on my plants, but I’m still pretty clueless on exactly how and when to prune roots.
O.o …Oh damn, this is definitely not for a pot in front of my apartment door. >.>' oops, lol… Still a good idea, though, if you have a house and yard!
Thanks for making a city girl grow beautiful vegs properly. Failed 1st year before I found your clear helpful videos. Shared you o all my friends trying to grow a garden. Thanks
Please paint the post it's rusting
Super idea 💡 👌
This is pretty cool. I would love an update on this after a season to see how it holds up and if you would change anything. Maybe you've explained this, but with so many trees, I'm wondering why you're doing containers and trellises rather than taking a permaculture approach. The latter feels like it would be much less work.
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Great instructions! So clear and precise, thank you!
Nice neat explanation & look ~ sure beats wobbly 4-stick bamboo teepees!
(SE NC is both windy & HOT, for sure. Imagine a blow dryer aimed at your plants 12 hours a day. 🤪 💨🌿 It's really amazing, & a lot of work, that you're able to grow the things you grow.)
Hey Millennial Gardener! Quick question! I am growing figs in containers from cuttings for the first time and I’m getting ready to up-pot soon. I’m living in zone 9b near Modesto CA and we get summer temps around 105+ degrees. I’ve heard that container figs can overheat in temps like that. Any tips on how to minimize overheating with container figs? Thanks so much!
I suspected you were an engineer. So am I. I love the fact that we engineer solutions in the garden. Well done, as usual! Nancy
that looks fantastic! I still have few figs in pots but you inspired me a while back to try some in the ground too.
It looks great. Just a suggestion on any rebar that you may still have in the ground….. They make orange (usually that color for visibility) caps that have a large flat surface area on top that go on top of rebar sticking out of the ground for construction sites to avoid just the thing you are trying to avoid.
You could probably find those to make any you have left safer for you.
This is so smart. Question- Couldn’t you put another t-post for the middle support? Looking forward to more videos. I need to know how to properly set up irrigation as you described. I grow 80% in containers myself. Thank you.
GREAT INFO…
Looks like the slow feeder dish didn’t slow Dale down too much…LOL!
Great video, thank you!
U have room to build a cattle panels greens house
Ok, why so many figs? Way to many figs unless you are taking to a farmers market. I only planted 4 squash plants last year and fed 4 neighbors and our house. Ended up throwing it to the wild life also. So the figs?
Nice work. I want to do something like this on a much smaller scale.
I like this trellis method. Great idea
For the rebars, you can drill holes in rubber balls bought at the Dollar Store, or old tennis balls, and stick them at the top. Safer if children are around.
Great concept and very helpful. I do something similar with my tomato plants. Two t-posts with a cable run between them about 5 feet high. Then I string trellis my plants with plastic clips I bought on Amazon. It works great except for my Sweet Million cherry tomato vines. I have to trellis them over a cattle panel archway because they grow 12 to 14 feet long.
do you get ant colonies beneath the ground cover you have all over the area I'm seeing? despite rain 3 days a week since May i am having a lot of ant hills everywhere including in the knife blade crack between pavers at my entries and patio area.
Can't you just use carabiners instead of those clips?
Awesome