I built this trellis for growing peas and tomatoes in the garden using a few tomato stakes and some twine. It was so easy to construct:
I love watching the sugar snap peas grow and look for something to attach their tendrils to:
Can you see the little hook of the snap pea plant below?
Here’s a closer look:
To construct it I used a hammer to pound three tomato stakes into the ground….each a few feet apart. I added the cross bars to the top and attached them using wire first and then twine:
I attached twine to the bottom and then added the zigzag by stringing more twine back and forth between the two bars:
Another view:
As soon as the sugar snap peas are harvested I’ll replant tomatoes there from the pots they are being grown in and I can use the same trellis for those too:
How I keep the birds away:
What’s growing in your garden right now? I’d love to know!
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That looks great! I can tell you are loving gardening and that’s the most important part of it. I have sugar snap peas, radishes, beets, a variety of lettuces, spinach, kale, broccoli, strawberries, ocra, carrots, and a variety of herbs. I have tomatoes and peppers that haven’t made it into the ground outside yet and we’re planting corn this weekend. I need to rebuild our teepee for the green beans sometime as well. That all sounds rather impressive as I type it. I assure you, it’s not. My gardening buddies are my 4 kids 6 and the under, so it’s more about process than product. Our garden is all about the kids.I love seeing their excitement and them seeing their hard work pay off. I haven’t ever planted corn, but the 4 year old insists, so I found him a spot and we prepped the ground together. We shall see how it goes! I have followed your blog for quite a few years now and love seeing your garden area progress.
Those are the best kind of gardening buddies! Ours is all about the process too….if something grows all the better 🙂
I absolutely LOVE my garden – somehow this little space in my backyard has become the safest place I know. This year we added another raised bed to the mix and now I have room to really experiment. Most of the garden is planted: beans, tomatoes, bell/sweet/hot peppers, zucchini, squash, lettuce and soon eggplant, watermelon, and cantaloupe. I cant wait!
I really love how you fenced in your garden area and Im so jealous of your chicky babies! Loving the updates
Looks great! Ours seems stuck in the beginning stages,but will get there…. My aunt had huge,gorgeous flower gardens,to keep the birds out/away she hung old cd/computer discs like your tins. Worked wonderfully!
We added three 4′ by 16′ raised beds to our garden this year. We found great corner joints at Gardener’s Supply online which made the construction much easier than the first two beds we built. We have strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cantaloupes, 16 tomato plants (all kinds) red, yellow and green peppers, onions, black-eyed peas, green beans. I have followed you for years and so enjoy your heart felt posts and your creativity. Thanks for sharing! Marty
I wish mine were 16 feet! That’s great! I am planting all the berries soon too. I hope they have fruit next year. Thank you Marty!
Your photos make me more anxious! Here in northern Michigan, planting season doesn’t start until early to mid June; too much of a hard frost threat before then. But the good news is, the days are much longer than the south and makes for a growing season at full speed ahead! In addition to our organic veggies we have a lot of berries, some of which give us a double yearly crop; and our cherished apple trees. My husband is the green thumb in the family, but my presence in the garden being outside and able to sneak a morsel here and there when nobody’s looking is the best!
What are you growing on either side of the peas? We live in central Ohio and haven’t planted anything yet, but I can’t wait.
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