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Help with structures - vertical, modular, and on a slope
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Posted by graficaamy 6B (My Page) on Fri, Jan 29, 10 at 16:59
| I'm loving this forum, especially photos. I need help with homemade structures for climbing veggies (mainly tomatos & pole beans). I'm wishing I could create the cattle-panel type solutions but I have some problems:
1. Not being in an agricultural area, local stores don't carry cattle or hog panels, and even if they did I don't have access to a truck.
2. I want to be able to re-arrange panels or components of the structures from year to year, as I practice rotation of different crops within my small area.
3. My garden is about 20 x 20 feet, on a distinct slope. I don't have actual terraces or walls, but just shovel-dig terraces each year and support with large rectangular planters (planted of course).
So I'm picturing some sort of panels that I can move around and reconfigure one year in a straight line, another year two leaning together like 2 sides of a steep roof, another year perhaps 3 panels like a triangular "tube" standing up, etc.
Any suggestions? Will the guys at a Lowes cut into pieces for me? What do I need to cut myself? Can I bend the pieces into the sort of gothic point-top arches I've seen here in certain threads?
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RE: Help with structures - vertical, modular, and on a slope
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| I too have to move my vertical supports based on a years rotation or my wanting to try something else.. I've found that for me T-post (steel fence posts) and small steel cable is the most stable and mobile. Just undo the cable, pull up the posts and change positions. Drive them back in and reset the cable.. As for doing something in a panel I wouldn't know a lot that would be STURDY and remotely mobile. |
RE: Help with structures - vertical, modular, and on a slope
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| my husband got some at a home depot or Lowes or feed store that were not as wide. He used a grinder and cut them down. Used them to make squares to put heavy tomatoes in. Used hog rings to hook together. Now I am wondering if you could find some of the plastic covered wire closet shelves and use them. I used a bunch (got inexpensive at ReStore Habitat for Humanity) I put them up and down vertical on fence to keep basketball out of the next yard. Then I bought more and cut with a hack saw and put together to make a gazebo or garden room of them. I will be using them to grow vines up. That might be a good thing for you to look for. I just used tie wire like cement men use on the rods to tie together. |
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| I should have said my husband used concrete reinforcing mesh. It is lighter weight and has bigger spaces. |
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