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Re: Trellis Height

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I used that method and training them back down does work.. Good luck..

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:39:40 -0500 "Michelle L. Neubold"
<neubold@research.umbc.edu> writes:
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> 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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