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Re: How NOT to build a trellis

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Speaking about neighbors....

I stared renting this house that I'm in now back in
January.  The new neighborhood is filled with retirees
with just a few "youngin's" (we're the youngest couple
in the block). I thought that maybe my neighbors were
stuck-up or something because during the first 2
months, not ONE neighbor came over to say hi.  

But then we started to put in the garden.  The
neighbor behind us stuck his head over the fence the
weekend we were building frames and digging up the
ground and asked what the *&%$* we were doing.  I took
a few minutes to explain the theory behind sq. ft
gardening.  His reaction, "You ain't gonna grow
anything in that soil, missy."  Well, duh!  It's FL
beach clay! But I explained that we were digging out
all the "icky" dirt and replacing it with a more
nutritious combination.  

Another stopped his car in front of our house one
evening while we were on "weed patrol" and wished us
luck.  "I can't never get rid of those darn weeds in
my yard."

And yesterday, the young man that lives next to us (he
and his girlfriend are the next youngest on the block)
stopped Rob while he was watering the garden.  He
asked what we were doing and why were we growing in
boxes and how do we know that it'll work and what were
we growing and what were we expected to get....He kept
poor Rob busy until I got home an hour later.  Seems
that he wants to start a garden too but it seemed to
be just too much work. I promised that he could borrow
Mel's book this weekend.

Hmmm...well, even if I don't get any good veggies out
of this garden this year, atleast it got my neighbors
to talk to me! 

(It was explained to us last night that the last
tenants were obnoxious pigs that had 2 little dogs
that destroyed everything and kept everyone up at
night.  AND they never took care of the yard...the
neighbor was mumbling something about waist-high weeds
on the front yard.  WOW!!!!!)

Oops...I'm droning along.  And it's 8 AM.  Gotta get
to work!

Annie

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> Hi everyone. I was looking around trying to figure
> out what I could make my trellis with since my old
> wooden ones had pretty much bit the dust and there
> sat a bunch of PVC pipe left over from a  project.
> Well with a few new couplings and some plumbers tape
> it looked pretty good. Got the string strung and
> even braced it on the sides with another couple of
> pieces of pipe . Then the wind started to blow and I
> thought the whole bed was gonna take off and fly
> away.Just too flimsy. However flimsly my wood
> trellis was- it was much better than this -this is
> just too wobbly. - it is 1 1/1 inch- maybe  just too
> high. don't know.The string looks really good this
> year too you know- darn it? I heard people on this
> very forum warn about this being too flimsy-but did
> I listen? NOOOOOO!- maybe a thicker pipe would be
> ok- but I think you need weigh plumbing pipe or just
> go get some decent wood. Oh well- only lost a few
> hours and learned a lot. My Neighbors got a kick out
> of this boo boo- the old timers in my mobile home
> park are always hanging over the fence waiting to
> see what I am going to next - things that THEYnever
> did when they gardened,"YOU CAIN"T GROW IN BOXES
> LIKE THAT-YOU GOTTA HAVE ROWS.YOU CAIN'T GROW MELONS
>  OR CUKES UP A ROPE LIKE THAT , YOU GOTS TO GROW EM
> ON HILLS, HOW COME YOU AINT ROTOTOLLIN? YOU GOTS TO
> ROTOTIL",  then when something grows-"HEY CAN WE
> HAVE SOME OF THEM TOMATERS?" Today as the trellis
> was swinging about madly (it WAS windy) and I was
> desperately trying to unhook it ALL BY
> MYSELF-without smacking myself silly- they were
> guffawing and snorting(the women do this too!) and 
> I heard someone suggest that it might make a great
> frame for a very large kite. Smart alecs.I wonder if
> any of them have any plumbing pipe....Teri.
> 
> 
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