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GAMCOD - Simple Trellis Ideas

 
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Howdy fellow GAMCODees!

Things are thawing but the ground is still wet where I live, I don't dare break into the dirt yet. I however am pondering different homemade trellis ideas and trying to figure out what would work best.

If anybody has homemade trellis pictures or designs, could you please share? I'm thinking limbs/branches and the such as materials.

I'm thinking I might try out some obelisks and stick teepees for my plot.

What do you think?
 
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My first thought went to a PEP badge. - https://permies.com/wiki/126957/PEP-BB-woodland-straw-twigconstruction

This has a bunch of submissions to draw inspiration from.
 
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It depends a bit on what you're intending it to support: This was my pea bed last year. I had some tall peas and I managed to get hold of a broken building site fence panel, which did for half the bed. On the windward side I just stuck in pea sticks selected from my alder coppice cut last year.

This would only be good for lightweight plants though - if you wanted to grow squash or even tomatoes, they would probably need something more substantial.

I just watched a video where the gardener used a wooden stepladder for her tomatoes :)
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