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trellis height

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>I noticed that some of you said your tomatoes got over six feet tall.
couple of trellises to grow tomatoes, beans, peas, and watermelon (small
ones). 6' is high enough?  Katherine

Tomatoes can sprawel.  If you prune a lot, more energy can lengthen them.
I prune not, will plant shallow root companion like basil, between, so I hit
2x2 (with 1 between) and 4-5 feet in a big retail cage.  At 4' they sprawel,
over the top...

However, beans that do top 6 feet will do the same, and be OK unless you have
severe winds.  Yet if you CAN arrange the garden to have taller for the beans
in one longer trellise support with a long cross member, strings can hang from
it.  Jeff Ball's seem to be 8ft and of pipe with strings.  8Ft pounded in may
only go in 18" so you'd have 6'6".  Saves $.

Next up is 10ft, 2 ft in the ground, yields 8ft.  Need a stool even to tie
strings.  yet offers an architectural feature, to hang feeders from an etended
crosssmember.  Options here too.  But 6 seems ok to  me, but 8 is a nice
luxury, but then worth more thought, like the mentioned extended end(s).
Bill/SF/9.5

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