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Using Vertical Space With A Square Foot Garden Trellis

June 10, 2012 By RDG

square foot garden trellis
This trellis was filled with cucumbers last year.

Utilizing vertical space increases the productivity of a garden bed. Mel Bartholomew’s All New Square Foot Gardening book hasĀ  instructions for building a functional trellis like the one pictured here.

Materials

rebar in corner of garden bed
Rebar is used to support the trellis.

The materials are half inch electrical conduit and nylon trellis netting. I’ve taken to buying conduit ten sticks at a time because it has plenty of uses (such as building a chicken tractor.) The trellis netting is tied to the frame of the trellis. Two foot sections of rebar are pounded into the ground at the corners of a garden bed to support the conduit.

A Trellis Is Great For Cucumber Vines

Although I have had problems growing too many indeterminate tomatoes on this type of trellis, I have had great success growing cucumbers, snap peas and even watermelons on it.

After growing perfect cucumbers on a trellis, you’ll never want to go back to growing them on the ground again. When grown on a trellis, the cucumbers do not turn yellow on one side.

Related Pages

  • Five lessons learned gardening
  • How many bush beans per square foot?
  • Why mulch paths between garden beds?
  • Watermelon grown in a square foot garden
  • Square Foot Garden Photo Essay

What do you like to grow on a trellis? I’d like to hear about it in the comments below.

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Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: cucumber, gardening, square foot garden, tomato, trellis, watermelon

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