30 Unique Vegetable Trellis Ideas – Produce More Food

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trellises a must have for every vegetable garden I’ve been growing vegetables most of my life and I’ve always had a trellis few weeks ago I went to my Facebook group uh Garden fundamentals and by the way you’re welcome to join us there and I asked my friends send me pictures of the trellis you use in your vegetable garden let’s see what the experts use I got lots of pictures sent in and in this program I’m going to show you those pictures now I’m not going to go through them in detail and show you how to construct them because most of it is fairly obvious how you would do it the purpose of this video is just to show you a lot of different types and get your mind thinking see which ones you like or don’t like and then you can plan the right trellis for your garden and while I’m showing you all these great pictures I’m going to tell you about trellis I’ll give you some facts and talk about some myths now this first picture is one of a trellis you shouldn’t be using these trellises are quite popular in nurseries and hardware stores they use a fairly thin but wide piece of wood and they look really nice the problem is that that wood section is too big most of the crops we’re going to grow on a trellis are Vining type crops and they’re able to hold themselves up they do that by either taking a little tendril and wrapping it around something or they use the pedal of the leaf and wrap that around something the problem is most of these plants plants can’t wrap around something thick and these wooden slats are just far too thick so although they look nice don’t use these in fact what you want is a type of wire and that wire shouldn’t be any thicker than a/4 in and it should be running vertical that helps Vines climb so keep it thin and let the vines grow up on their own much less work for you so why use a trellis well I can think of Three Good Reasons one is that it keeps the fruit off the ground and so it’s cleaner and by the way things like peas beans cucumbers Tomatoes they’re all grown on Vines and they’re all fruits they’re not vegetables second reason is that it’s a whole lot easier to pick this food I rather stand up and just grab that bean why bend over if you don’t have to the third reason is one of space and this is probably the most important reason our backyards are getting smaller and smaller the amount of space you have for growing food is small and vertical growing allows you to grow more food in a small space and that’s really the main reason for doing it imagine growing pumpkins and growing them on the ground they take a huge amount of space in fact for most of you one plant would take up your whole backyard but if we can grow these up on a trellis they take much less space how high should the trellis be well that depends on a lot of things for one it depends on how tall you are I’m 6 ft and then I have a reach so my trellis are about 7t tall and I can pick the bean up at the top now once it gets over 7 ft I usually cut the vines off because if they go any higher I can’t pick it anyways or in the case of beans the beans actually start coming back down again because there’s no trellis up there so even though they’re still growing getting longer they actually start coming down and I can pick my food if you’re shorter use short trellises the other thing you want to do is match the height of the trellis to the plants you’re going to grow so peas for instance and here I’m talking about sugar snap peas they’re the only ones I would grow uh they go up to about four or 5T tall and then they stop so if I was making a trus for Peas I only need 5 ft why make it 7 ft when they never get there on the other hand my beans here in Ontario in zone 5 they can easily grow 10 ft tall my cherry tomatoes also grow on a trellis and they can get to 8 ft with no problem so look at the plants you’re growing and try and match the trellis to the plants but of course there are limitation if you’re buying certain building materials they come in a certain size and that may limit you so most of these Vines can be kept shorter or you let them grow to the top and then you let them grow sideways or as I mentioned with the beans you just let them grow over top try to match the height of the trellis to what you find comfortable working with and the crops you’re going to GR grow but as a general rule taller is better using a short trellis with a tall plant really is a lot of trouble having a short plan on a tall trellis may be a waste of materials but it works well to make this video I decided to look online and see what other people say about trellis and I found one website that said one of the reasons to use trellis is because plants growing on a trellis have better access to the nutrients in soil and better access to the water in soil now they didn’t give an explanation and that’s pretty common on websites that just say stupid thing there’s no reason to think that a trellis is going to change the amount of nutrients a plant gets that’s based on the root system and having a trellis doesn’t really change the root system in fact if I had to guess I would guess that a plant growing on the ground in a sprawling formation might actually have a larger root cyst but I’m not sure about that but trellis has nothing to do with the amount of water and nutrients plant Gap probably the most disgusted topic about trellises is how should they be orientated in the G should you use an East West orientation or a north south orientation I mean which one grows better food I think the right answer here is it depends I encourage gardeners to really understand their plants and don’t follow rules learn to think like a plant and that’s what I do in my book plant science for gardeners I explain how plants grow and want you understand how they grow you can make Intelligent Decisions in the garden without following somebody else’s rule so what is the best orientation well the plants don’t care but the plants do need something most vegetable crops need lots of light and even though there are videos out there trying to tell you that hey most of these vegetables can be grown in Shade that’s just bunk almost all the vegetables we grow want full sun and for a lot of us that’s a problem particularly in smaller yard so you want to orientate your trellis to get the most amount of sun if you’re at the equator it doesn’t matter quite so much what your orientation is because the Sun is up above you most of the time but as we get farther north or farther south away from the equator the Sun comes in at an angle and so orientation is a little bit more important the best orientation to catch that sun is an East West orientation because the plants are facing the sun all day long I’ve orientated my trellis in a north south orientation why would I do that one of the reasons I do that is that I grow things on both side of the trellis so I’ll have a trellis with peas on one side and tomatoes on the other side so I want both sides of my trellis getting sun and when I go north South then one side getss the morning sun and the other side gets the afternoon sun not only that but I’m using fairly thin wire on my trellis so Sun actually goes through the trellis and gets to the other side anyway the orientation probably doesn’t matter too much and you have to fit it in your garden if you have raised beds and they’re going in the direction of say northeast to Southwest well you have to deal with that that’s where your beds are or perhaps your garden is oriented ated that way so you have to go with that again back to understanding the plants all your vegetable crops need lots of Sun so take your trellis and put it at the back of the bed it still get lots of light there but in front of that trellis you now have a sunny Garden if you put the trellis at the front of the bat the back of the trellis is shaded and a lot of things won’t grow well there but some things will for instance if I’m trying to grow lettuce and it’s summertime it’s too hot for lettuce It Bolts but if I plant behind a trus it’s cooler it lasts longer and It Bolts later on in the season so I have a longer lettuce Harvest but for the most part you want a trellis at the back and everything else in front and that gives you the most sun on all your crop now I’ve mentioned Tomatoes a couple times and I grow those up at trus but Tomatoes don’t cling to the trellis they are Vines but they don’t really climb themselves in nature those Vines kind of crawl over top of other plants and lay on the ground when I grow them up a trellis the trellis I use for tomatoes has fairly big hole so I can take my fist and push it through those holes so when a tomato plant is growing up I just take the growing part and just push it through the hole so my tomato plant is weaving itself in and out in and out up the trellis I don’t have to tie anything because it’s holding itself it does need a little push once in a while so once a week I go out there and just push them through the holes but for that to work I have to pick a trellis that has holes large enough that I can push my hand through and large enough so that I don’t bend the stems too much they break so something like chicken wire won’t work so think about the size of the holes in your trellis larger is better so I hope you’ve learned a lot about trellis here and I hope you’ve picked some designs that you like they will make you a better Gardener and they will help you produce more food now I’m sure you’re growing tomatoes it’s the most popular crop out there but would you be surprised that most people fertilize their Tomatoes incorrectly I’ve made a whole video on how to fertilize tomatoes and you can get to it right here I also have a free vegetable growing course that you can do through YouTube there’s no fee there’s no registration just go to the videos on YouTube and you can get started right now by clicking here happy gardening