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Three months to get a weird gourd trellis that actually worked
I wanted to grow these mutant bottle gourds that look like snakes and needed a trellis that could hold like 40 pounds of fruit. Tried PVC pipes first and the whole thing collapsed after a week. Then I tried wooden stakes but they rotted after one rainstorm. Finally went with a cattle panel arched over my raised bed and secured it with rebar. That took three months of trial and error and about $60 in wasted materials. Has anyone else had a vine crop just wreck their DIY garden structure?
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roberts.troy3mo ago
Oh man, I've been there. I had a giant pumpkin vine that just flattened my entire tomato cage setup like it was nothing. What finally worked for me was using those heavy duty metal T-posts I found at the farm supply store and running some thick wire between them.
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murray.cole3mo ago
Add some concrete to the bottom of those T-posts if you're dealing with really wet ground. I learned that the hard way when a storm knocked over a whole row because the posts just wobbled right out of the mud. Did you ever have trouble with the wire sagging under the weight of a heavy vine?
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