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RE: Cheap 'n Easy Trellises? (Follow-Up #5)
posted by: violet_z6 on 04.16.2006 at 01:30 am in Vegetable Gardening Forum Depending on the size of the melons. If they're under over a pound, and you have many melons along with a sprawling vine, there is no way any of those tiny tomato cages would ever work. They're not big enough or sturdy enough. Peony cages if heavy gauge might work for smaller varieties of cukes or smaller melons but I'm talking heavy gauge, the kind you can't bend with your arm.
I prefer to use cattle panels which are heavy gauge - they're called cattle panels for a reason and you can get one the size of the one in the top pic for $14.00 which is cheap because it's a one time investment and if you really want to, it is possible to cut it. Many in the tomato forum will also tell you how great they are, just search that forum or ask. You have zero doubt as to whether they'll hold and they last forever. I've grown ten pound melons on them and they don't even flinch. And the wire is thin enough that the tendrils grasp on easily, unlike pvc pipe unless the pipe is simply the support to hold up some other type of thinner medium used as a trellis. This isn't my pic, just examples:
Great examples at the following link: Here is a link that might be useful: particularly scroll down to Lockheart TX NOTES: <none>
clipped on: 01.11.2007 at 09:43 am last updated on: 01.11.2007 at 09:43 am
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Easy Propagation Chamber
posted by: little_dani on 10.05.2005 at 08:34 pm in Plant Propagation Forum I make a little propagation chamber that is so easy, and so reliable for me that I thought I would share the idea. I have not seen one like it here, and I did look through the FAQ, but didn't find one there either. I hope I did not miss it, and I hope I do not offend anyone by being presumptive in posting this here.
That said.... This is what you will need.
Janie NOTES: <none>
clipped on: 01.09.2007 at 07:43 am last updated on: 01.09.2007 at 07:43 am
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