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Re: trellis height

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> I noticed that some of you said your tomatoes got over six feet tall.
>
> I'm about to put up a couple of trellises to grow tomatoes, beans, peas,
> and watermelon (small ones). I was originally going to make them extend
six
> feet above the dirt, but now I'm not sure that is high enough. What do you
> recommend?
>
> Katherine
> Northern Virginia, just on the border of 6b and 7a

There was a couple (strong) T shaped posts in my back yard from
an old cloths line.  The posts are about 30 feet apart.  I put my
raised beds centered under these posts.  I restrung strong
cloths line on these posts.  In the center of my 8 foot beds I
put in a 10 foot piece of electical conduit stuck a few feet in the
ground.  I lash the cloths line to conduit as high as I can reach
while standing on the wood of the bed.  (I built strong beds)
This leaves my horizontal wire about 7feet above the
raised bed.

The last few years I have cheap twine hanging down from
this clothes line.  I quickly learned to tie knots in it occassionly
so the plants would not slide down.  I tie some loops in the
twine for any crop that needs extra support.

My peas (probably started too late) barely make it to the top
of this before they croak out for the season.  But vining beans
go all the way up (7 feet) then sideways.  I always plant
a few beans at the base of the conduit so they can go
up the extra few feet sticking out.

This year I am going to hang netting from the clothes
line, but I don't think I want it much higher than it already
is.  Quite frankly it is hard to harvest from 8 feet up.

So the heck with how tall they could grow, how tall would
be handy for you.

Best of luck  Ron Souliere


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