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RE: Trellis Height

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Mine are 6 foot - slightly over 5 foot when pounded into the ground.
This is high enough for
me, although I have had to cut off the tops of my cantaloupe and
watermelon vines 2 years
ago.  I wonder if I could just "train" the vine back down the string
towards the bottom???

-Michelle
 Zone 6 - South Central PA

Bill wrote:

> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> >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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