I’m trying to decide how I want to support my plants and was looking around my neighborhood big box hardware store for ideas. I bought a couple of 8 foot long pieces of wood to bring home and start toying around with ideas.
First off, I’ll address the elephant in the room. Yes, it’s pressure treated wood ( MCA ). I know that there are plenty of opinions ranging from ‘never ever’, to ‘it depends’ about having pressure treated wood around your plants. I’m open to what everyone has to say, but I’d appreciate if the focus was on the ideas first, and the materials second.
Idea 1: Make several A-Frames over the beds, with horizontal beams running the length between each A-Frame. The horizontal beams would be over each bed, and aside from providing support for the structure, they would be used as anchor points for running garden twine down around each in a string trellis, or twist, method of support.
Idea number 2: Anchor the wood in a pot of sand, or something similar, but each piece would be standing vertically. And I’d place several of them going down the length of the beds, and either put a beam across the top to hang the twine from, or run galvanized steel wire between each beam, and hang the twine from that.
I’m partial to using the string trellis ( or “twist” ) method, as if you couldn’t tell, since I’ve had success with it in the past. But I’m open to other ideas. My budget is also a factor, which is why I bought these beams ( both of them together still cost less than a 8 foot tomato stake ).
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