We’ve been using an arch trellis for several years in our backyard garden and absolutely love it! We use it to grow pole lima beans, climbing snap beans, cowpeas, cucumbers, English peas, and more!
Unfortunately, we need to move our arch trellis so we can increase the size of our fig orchard. So we’ll show you the entire step-by-step process for building your own arch trellis as we move ours from one garden plot to another. We’ll tell you all the supplies you need and provide helpful tips that we’ve learned from installing and using ours.
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0:32 Why Do We Need to Move This Trellis?
1:41 Taking Down Our Arch Trellis
4:43 Picking a New Spot for Our Arch Trellis
5:08 Installing T-Posts for Our Arch Trellis
7:39 Adding Cattle Panels Between T-Posts
8:57 Showing the Completed Arch Trellis
11:17 What Can You Grow on a Trellis?
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31 Comments
i think they are a fab way of making a garden trellis, they last so well. As a english person i have to ask, whats an english pea? im assuming its a garden pea? the large ones?
Maybe some sweet patatoes would do well
Blackberries and Raspberries work good on the cattle panel also.
Hi Travis. Looks great. Are those yellow zip ties resistant to UV rays? It usually says on the package. The ones that aren't will get brittle on you. Easy enough to replace them as they age I guess. Cheers, Chuck in Jensen Beach.
Here in Minnesota we've been vertically growing crops of acorn & butternut squash, watermelon, jack-o-lanterns & other pumpkins. We've experimented with bungee cords & mesh laundry bags, pillow cases tied with a rock in the corner using bailing twine for small to medium sized items. For the 20+pounders like our Cinderella pumpkins, we support them with basket ball nets using multiple strings each tied with a taut-line hitch to take in or pay out line as is sometimes needed as the pumpkin gets wider or to keep the neck aligned as the stem gets thicker. We've had great results with cucurbits of course but also malabar spinach on our cattle panels. We do use 6 posts on each panel when we know we are planting with heavy crops. We secure the panels to the posts with thin stainless wire or copper coated welding wire (reduced corrosion) using lockwire pliers for quick and solid wire twisting and improvement over plastic cable ties. Growing vertically frees up a lot of surface area in our urban backyard garden for other crops and provides a fun shady sittin spot on a hot Summer day. I'd say the arches really help the formed leaf canopy to stave off powdery mildew as well. Love your channel sir!
I did a cattle panel between two raised beds and planted yard long and cucumbers in the raised bed it is next to…
I got my first tomatoes on march 7 and my first artichoke…hopefully it will have some meat on it..
CAN U PLANT SOME.ARTICHOKES AND TALK ABOUT THEIR CARE TO GET ACTUAL EDIBLE ONES…
Our Dawgs have another easy schedule. Expect a re-peat on another championship.
Hi Travis! Always love watching your channel. I use my tunnel for a shade structure to develop trees for my orchard. I plant malabar spinich on one part but most is dedicated to American bittersweet which I use for fall decorating or resale to local florists or give it away to friends and family.
A structure I have made for cherry tomatoes is t posts and woven wire fencing that I bought for cheap at a farm sale. I can have 100 foot rows of support and . My. Grand children absolutely loved be picking the Aries off the vertices structure and I grow a lot of veg in small space!
Love this idea….seems one could convert this sructure to a green house over winter by putting clear poly over it!
I have a question. Does it make a difference as to the direction you set the trellis so as to get the best sun exposure evenly?
I do my cherry tomatoes on an arch every year, they do really great. Seems like they get better air flow or something because I can keep them around until frost this way with no disease which usually doesn’t happen in TN with tomatoes. Sometimes they will get wild later in the season but a lot of times I’ll just cut off the crazy limbs since they’re so big by then.
Have you ever used an arch trellis in your backyard garden? Let us know!
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Why Do We Need to Move This Trellis?
1:41 Taking Down Our Arch Trellis
4:43 Picking a New Spot for Our Arch Trellis
5:08 Installing T-Posts for Our Arch Trellis
7:39 Adding Cattle Panels Between T-Posts
8:57 Showing the Completed Arch Trellis
11:17 What Can You Grow on a Trellis?
Constructed these a few years ago – wish I had your tips about not putting all four post down ahead of time and the bottoms rusting if they touch the ground- ALL good advice – I learned the hard way on both of these matters! Cherry tomatoes do well on these for sure. Best crop has been max pack cucumbers and rattlesnake green beans.
we grow all of our indeterminate tomatoes on a trellis like this. Its 16 feet long and we usually have around 30 plants on it. It easily covers the top of the trellis on both side. Very easy to harvest. Dont rotate, just amend the soil every year and companion plant with basil and marigolds. NEVER had a pest of disease problem. North Georgia mountains
I have a trellis like that connecting some of my raised beds together. And crop rotation is indeed a pain sometimes. I have grown everything you mentioned including crimson sweet watermelons and cantaloupe. However the melons did need a bit of extra support. I had to fashion cradles or hammocks for them. Pantyhose and grocery bags both worked for me but is was a pain in the butt and don't recommend it unless you're just really hard up for space. Which at the time I was. Now I just give it a break if I need to
Y'all are fast. Those purple peas are now sold out!
Can you show the trellises that are easier to move? Thanks
Dang……I've known you since before you had silage tarps and a "bean tunnel" trellis! 🤣😂 You're getting old! Great job on the explanation and demo of constructing them. Just eat you an extra helping of greens and move the dang thing when you need to! The real "permanent" solution is to build a "sled" type setup with skid runners. You can pull that thing around with your ATV. I sold my 4 wheeler last year when I was about to build one, so I'm sticking to panels and poles.
Great video. Have been thinking about building this trellis and your video helped make up my mind. New subscriber here. ❣️
Luffas are my favorite to grow on this type of trellis. It creates shade for my kids when we are in the garden which is much needed in Central Arkansas.
Well dang…peas are sold out.
Create a shade house by throwing a shade cloth over the trellis and grow stuff like ripe (red, yellow, orange) bell peppers that are prone to sunburn inside the shaded area.
I built a two panel archway and am growing Passionfruit. I have another single panel archway the I've used for long beans so far. But your tip about keeping the panels 6-8" off the ground was new to me! Great tip for the future. Thanks!
Travis, did you identify which tater you have that isn't sprouting yet? My Caribe are not sprouting well. Sarpo Mira, Baltic Rose and Elba are well up and growing. I love growing vertical on hortinova and crop wire for heavier crops. Tasty Bites and Hannahs Choice cantaloupes.
T post puller? I have been using my son as the puller. Not kidding.i have never heard of it. I'm going shopping immediately. I just checked, it is not in your Amazon store. Help a sister out!! Could you use the off season trellis for pollinator flowers?
I grew sugar babies, cantaloupe and honeydew on my cattle panels last year. They don’t make it to the top but it worked well
I have done indetermined tomatoes on trellis like that. I can single or double stem them and they will climb with no real trouble. I like it better than the single string method.
I grow 30+ pound black diamond watermelon on mine, works just fine with a melon sling.
I've grown both cucumbers and snap peas on mine and it works great. Great video