In this video, I show you how to build the easiest garden trellis I’ve ever built! I’m using this trellis to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, eggplant and melons vertically in my container garden area, but this easy garden trellis will fit almost anywhere and can be sized to any area you’re growing in. It’s so easy and cheap to build that I finished in only 2 hours!
Building a trellis can seem complicated and expensive, but that’s because many gardeners over-complicate them. This is the easiest trellis I’ve ever built. All it takes are inexpensive 2″x2″ furring strips, t-posts, zip ties, an overhead cable and common attachment hardware. You can customize the gardening trellis to any height or length you desire so it perfectly fits in whatever growing area you’re growing vegetables in.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Vertical Gardening
0:58 Materials List
2:13 Installing The Trellis Posts
4:20 Installing The Cable
6:58 How To Trellis A Tomato Plant
8:05 How To Trellis A Cucumber Plant
9:20 Vegetable Trellising Lessons Learned
10:45 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to build a trellis for vertical gardening, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 Intro To Vertical Gardening
0:58 Materials List
2:13 Installing The Trellis Posts
4:20 Installing The Cable
6:58 How To Trellis A Tomato Plant
8:05 How To Trellis A Cucumber Plant
9:20 Vegetable Trellising Lessons Learned
10:45 Adventures With Dale
I go low-tech and save long branches from a Mulberry that I trim every year in my front yard and make tepee structures and interconnect them with other smaller branches. Primitive in appearance but easy to throw together, quite functional, handle occasionally 40+ mile wind, 12 to 15 feet tall at the peaks and best of all – absolutely free.
Well… Jute twine is really inexpensive and I save copper wire from conduit when I run across some.
Would this garden trellis work for a balcony garden? The floor is ceramic tile. How would I anchor the T-post to the floor? Could I use a 2x 2 x 8 whitewood furring instead of pressure heated lumber? Thank you.
Vertices trellis for plants is the way to go. I've been using it for years. But I have. An alternate method. Use 1/2" EMT conduit which, around here runs about $6.25 for 10' lengths. I cut 4 of them to 8' and Zip tie them to T posts 10' apart (I actually just use 5' U posts and they work fine). Drill holes in the ends of 3 10' lengths and use "S" hooks to hang the tops of the vertical EMT pipes (alternate hanging front and back so they don't interfere). I can make a 30' trellis that doesn't warp or sag and will last forever for less than $50.
Just what I needed to see. Txs so much. I can do this
Really enjoy your channel. You're so thorough! Thank you.
IMO you should have told everyone to raise the wooden post of the ground by a couple inches. If you keep them dry they will last a lot longer.
Cool. thanks for showing us.
Is that a coffee tree behind you at 7:30?
Not sure if that construction is going to hold up to the weight of all those plants once they are 2 meters high. Especially the end posts are likely to fail. Let us know how it went.
How do the zip ties hold up under the sun? Are they UV ray resistance? Maybe some kind of clamp could be added. I tied a straw bale garden a few years back and the heirloom tomato plants thrived in the beginning but later died from some kind of disease.
Um, how did you get the t-posts to stand up vertically like that? Methinks you skipped an important step. ;^)
Use 3/4" electrical conduit instead of the wood
I think you hurt Dale's feelings. Heez gud boye
If you flip the warped 2×2 around 180 degrees you will eventually have straight wood again haha.
Good morning 😃
Thanks! Dale is so cute. He hit the jackpot finding a home with you guys.
I would just have to secure the poles with rebar stakes because of the high summer (Monsoonal) winds around here.
Nice Job! You could just drink some fertilizer… might grow 6 inches 🤣
my goodness! So simple. I had no idea. So, what do you do for shorter trellises? Same thing? Can you use the same theory for horizonal planting? I know things need to go up some, but I'm short, so at some point they will need to go horizontal.
Can you do a video on harvesting seeds from your garden. And how to store them?
When are they ready for the string ? Thank you. This was my Mother’s Day gift. Thank you
Can you guys imagine having this guy live next door to you? I mean that would be fantastic! I bet you have a neighbor or two who has asked gardening questions! I'm a mile from the NC line in the upstate SC. Great channel I just subscribed!
Add guy lines to the outside standards to balance them and turn buckles to the inside so that they can be dismantled easily at the end of the season
Question: my apple tree's main trunk was destroyed by a rabbit about 3 years ago. Next year from under the earth, 2 branches did grow out and are now 5 feet high. But, can actually apples grow when the main trunk is dead? The tree is 5 years old. Thank you! 🙂
Hey Mur. When you going to have our boy Tuck on your show?🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🤍
Lovely! This will be perfect for my Scarlett runners. The hummingbirds just abound when they are in full bloom. DALE is adorable!!! Been wanting to tell you that. Anybody who loves dogs are ok people to me! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Very well done video. Just curious as to how you use those arches and what material was used to make them.
What are the (looks like) PVC "hoops" over the top of the trellis? They're perpendicular.
Wow what an awesome design! Thanks for the video!