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Old April 15, 2010   #1
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Any ideas would help me. I am growing 5-10 plants around my 6ft fence which gets south sunny light 6 hours of more, I am growing Heirloom plants now inside, my first time with them. Last year i used 6ft sticks for myRoma/cherrys hybrid plants, each had maybe 3 or more. I will use the fence this year to hold up my plants i hope with Sticks again, 1 6ft for each, i tie it up ever day. But i now have some nice dirt 12-20 ft away from the fence, and i would like to put 5-6 plants in there,onions between them, this is new dirt for growing, so i have put alot of composed dirt ,eggs, Lime in there for this year, it looks great. I will put Black Krim, Brandwine Sudduth, Green Zebra,Cherokee Purple and others there. So i need something to hold them up, i do not to want to buy a ton or wire, for only 6 plants, so here are some shots of the lawn garden. I have been looking for anything to make or buy which would be 6ft or larger ,heavy and i would get all together to hold the down for wind, or heavy rain. i am thinking for wood

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Old April 19, 2010   #2
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Here is a link to pictures of some pvc cages:
http://www.feldoncentral.com/garden/tom_pvc/

The wood A-frames work. I made a kind of heavy duty one out
of scrap wood that I had sitting around, with a piece of pipe
on top and hand-tied trellis on the ends of the pipe to get it
to support 3 plants:
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PS:

Something like this (2 vertical poles with a rigid horizontal
pole across the top):

http://www.floridavegetablegarden.co...2-1024x680.jpg

using this kind of netting:
http://www.gardenharvestsupply.com/c...rellis-netting

goes up fast, is easy to tuck stems into (stretchy), and has
been trouble-free for me. I used plastic wire ties to attach
the netting to the poles.
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You could buy a few landscaping timbers and try this method




2-3 T-posts would be plenty.
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