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    Home » Video » Gardening TV

    How to build a trellis for your vegetable garden - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 12 Comments

    Build A Trellis

    This post may contain affiliate links, it helps us pay the bills, more info here.

    Want to build a trellis for our vegetable garden that uses recycled wood and twine? I made this video to show you how. We grow peas, beans, & cucumbers on this simple trellis. (Want to learn how to grow peas? It's easy: Watch how to here.)

    Enjoy the video I made for you below, and then read through the steps to build your trellis.

    Are you wondering if you can transplant peas? I finally answered this for myself.
    And here's an easy DIY soaker hose system video to water your trellised vegetables.

    Build A Trellis, The GardenFork Way:

    To build this simple trellis, you will need:

    • Jute or twine (avoid synthetic twine)
    • 1x2 pine stakes
    • Cable Staple Gun
    • Cordless drill
    • Drywall or wood screws

    If you have raised beds, you can build a trellis by attaching the vertical posts to the sides of the bed. I put the posts just inside the bed and drill into them from the outside wall. Two screws in each post will hold it. Make sure the screws do not jut out past the wood, the point could hurt someone digging in the raised bed.

    If you are not using raised beds, I've found it helpful to cut a point at the bottom of your vertical posts, then hammer them into the ground where you want the trellis.

    If you are building a trellis for a in-ground use, attach a cross bar about 18" above the bottom of the vertical posts and drive the trellis into the ground. You may want to attach some wood triangles where the posts meet the top crossbar to make it sturdier and keep it from swaying side to side.

    top of wood trellis

    For a trellis on a raised bed vegetable garden, I don't use a bottom cross piece. I staple the bottom loops of the twine right to the wooden sides of the bed. I do screw the top cross piece into the two upright supports. I then cable staple the twine up and down. Pretty easy.

    bottom of wood trellis

    If you want, you can just loop the twine across the top cross support. I'm all about making it simple.

    build-a-trellis-3

    I don't think you need to use pressure treated wood for to build a trellis. I use regular pine or recycled wood from other projects, and they have weathered just fine. If you have some fallen trees nearby, the limbs work great for this, just cut them to size.

    build-a-trellis-1

    I like vertical gardening like this, it saves tons of garden space. I make sure that my trellises do not shade too much of the rest of the vegetable garden, because sun is already limited in my yard.

    Why do I use twine for the trellis? In the fall, I can easily cut down the string with the plants, chop it up a bit, and toss it into the compost pile. The string will break down. For peas I run the string up and down, for a cucumber trellis, I will also run the twine across the posts, as they need more support. My favorite tool for attaching the twine to the wood supports is a cable staple gun.

    garden trellis with sugar snap peas

    Build A Trellis

    I am all about keeping it simple and use what you got, but if you want to go fancy, see what my friend Erin has done with a super fancy trellis.

    This is only the beginning of how you can DIY make a trellis. Let me know how you build a trellis in the comments below. Thx!

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Isolde

      July 09, 2011 at 1:10 pm

      Nice trellis, thanks for sharing this with us!

    2. Steve Howard

      July 10, 2011 at 6:27 pm

      Eric - You continue to out do yourself. Love your new HD videos. Now if only I could get some rain and weather under 100 degrees to grow peas or beans!

      Thanks againf, Eric (and Camera Operator!) for sharing

    3. DollarSeed.com

      July 11, 2011 at 7:13 am

      Eric, I just watched your video today, and sure wish I had seen it a lot earlier in the year...lol. I made my trellis for cukes out of a whole large bunch of tree branches and twigs. Looks kinda cool, but wow, it was a major time taker when I should have been planting and weeding instead. I have all the same tools, (are we spoiled or what?) and a dog to help get in the way....lol. Thanks for sharing.
      Dave

    4. Tonia Moxley

      July 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm

      Where did you get that two-sided pilot hole drill bit? I can't find one to save my life.

    5. Ginger

      July 12, 2011 at 8:50 pm

      Camera operator was a little slow at the end 😉
      How do you keep deer out of your garden? Last year I had the deer walk right down my rows munching the tops off my peas and beans - this year they went after my pumpkin patch. They just wait for when the dog is inside to do it.

    6. Doreen

      July 25, 2011 at 4:57 pm

      Cool Beans!! i just made some pretty cool trellising using old old bitter sweet vines my neihbor just tore out of the woods...so curly, knarly...they are topping several contractor's stakes that were given to me ... lashed there with twine...so cool!! will come apart pretty easily for the clean up! Thanks for sharing all that you guys do!! I so enjoy the dog poeple too!!

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