how do u install ur trellis ? my garden is very rocky & i cant dig deeper to put my post to stand can u give me any advice what to do pls show us how u did ur trellis !! thanks alot !!
I bought a 1/2 in. conduit bender because those elbows were relatively expensive and I was planning on making quite a few.
I have 3'x12' raised beds. You can make a 6' wide trellis much taller than Mel's design if you use the conduit bender to put a 90 degree bend in two 12 foot lengths of conduit and connecting them with the much cheaper in-line joints.
@noslrac1980 I don't have the exact measurements but you can look up the length of conduit it takes and the resulting radius and calculate where to bend it to get a 3 foot section on the short side of the L so that when you connect two of them you get a 6 ft. trellis. The conduit bender had some documentation for these calculations.
@noslrac1980 I used 18 in rebar and ended up pushing the conduit into the ground a little. I still got about 7.5 ft tall trellis.
The only other mods I added was a small (cheapest) t-post at each end of the 12' bed zip tied to one side of the trellis. I then zip tied the middle section of each trellis to one another. This made for a very stout trellis.
I'm a big fan of el-cheapo netting. I have had good success with using a netting, anchored to bamboo, running up onto a tree for my Louisiana Purple Pod Beans!
how do u install ur trellis ? my garden is very rocky & i cant dig deeper to put my post to stand can u give me any advice what to do pls show us how u did ur trellis !! thanks alot !!
misskisskadee 1 year ago
I bought a 1/2 in. conduit bender because those elbows were relatively expensive and I was planning on making quite a few.
I have 3'x12' raised beds. You can make a 6' wide trellis much taller than Mel's design if you use the conduit bender to put a 90 degree bend in two 12 foot lengths of conduit and connecting them with the much cheaper in-line joints.
noslrac1980 1 year ago
@noslrac1980 I don't have the exact measurements but you can look up the length of conduit it takes and the resulting radius and calculate where to bend it to get a 3 foot section on the short side of the L so that when you connect two of them you get a 6 ft. trellis. The conduit bender had some documentation for these calculations.
noslrac1980 1 year ago
@noslrac1980 I used 18 in rebar and ended up pushing the conduit into the ground a little. I still got about 7.5 ft tall trellis.
The only other mods I added was a small (cheapest) t-post at each end of the 12' bed zip tied to one side of the trellis. I then zip tied the middle section of each trellis to one another. This made for a very stout trellis.
This gives you a 12 foot section of trellis
noslrac1980 1 year ago
I'm a big fan of el-cheapo netting. I have had good success with using a netting, anchored to bamboo, running up onto a tree for my Louisiana Purple Pod Beans!
ThePatriotNurse 1 year ago