Tapestry do it yourself in the garden, in the greenhouse is easy to do. The basic method of growing tomatoes or cucumbers in a vertical plane has several advantages.
- The trellis allows you to freely walk between rows without stepping, for example, on a whip of cucumbers.
- Planting tomatoes, cucumbers when growing on a support is well blown, ventilated. The leaves do not sweat, as if there were no water droplets on the leaves below. This means that spores of peronosporosis or late blight are more difficult to germinate, i.e. conditions for the occurrence of diseases are not created.
- Harvesting from plants growing on a trellis is much easier, more pleasant - everything is in sight. Branches, shoots do not need to turn, turn.
What is a trellis
Tapestry is a specially made vertical support for garden or garden plants. This can be a structure made of wooden or metal columns dug into the ground with a metal, plastic mesh, wire stretched between them. Instead of mesh or wire, you can fill or fasten wooden slats.
Now in stores for gardeners you can buy ready-made designs for growing plants on a trellis. For example, for this purpose I adapted the side walls of the old greenhouse, pulling them from top to bottom, and also between them from above a plastic trellis net.
I bring to your attention the experience of gardeners, how to install a trellis in the open ground for growing cucumbers, tomatoes.
Description of the trellis design - step by step instructions
Three columns are buried so that their height above the ground is three meters, and four meters apart, in one row. The columns must be buried well so as not to stagger. Two rails of four meters connect the top of the three columns. Stronger nail with nails on top.
Then, from top to bottom, after one meter, we stretch a thick wire, fasten with brackets made of nails. At the extreme columns, the ends of this wire are twisted around the column, fixed with brackets. So - through every meter. It turns out three stretched wires, and the bottom should be 20 cm from the ground. The trellis frame is ready.
Now we take a soft aluminum wire or any wire, cut pieces of 4.5 meters, begin to braid from top to bottom. We fix the end of the wire on the rail, then twist it on the transverse wires once, so that the thin wire does not move, so do it to the ground. After 20 cm - the next wire is twisted on the transverse again to the ground. Repeat this until the entire plane looks like a grid with the same cells.
There are six such panels of the same length and height. In the autumn, on one side of the panel, we dig a trench 60 cm wide and 50-60 cm deep. We put the soil nearby. Then we do this: we take six parts of horse manure, six parts of mullein, one part of chicken, three parts of goat manure, three parts of ash. We mix, fill the entire trench to the top, then close it with soil - it turns out a bed near the trellis.
During the winter period, the mixture will settle, decay. And in the spring we make a groove 10-15 cm deep throughout the garden, sow cucumbers, tall tomatoes through the trellis. That is, one row - cucumbers, the second - tomatoes, the next - again cucumbers. This should be done if we plant different varieties of tomatoes so that they do not become dusty.
When the seedlings grow, we leave, for example, 30 bushes of tomatoes, 40 plants of cucumbers at a distance of 15-20 cm from each other. So - a row of cucumbers, a row of tomatoes, alternate the following rows as well to preserve the varieties.
The care is this: to direct the plants up the trellis, to water. In order not to loosen the beds, cover with fine straw or dry leaves. From one bush of tomatoes planted in this way, you can collect 1-1.5 buckets of good tomatoes. From a cucumber whip - 1 bucket of cucumbers.
Vegetables grown on the trellis are well ventilated, it is very convenient to collect them.
Trellis options, different supporting structures - photo
Below are photos of various designs of tapestries made by yourself.
How to make props for seedlings from improvised materials? In one video I spied such a trellis design for cucumbers.
Bamboo sticks must be thrust into the ground at an angle towards each other (hut). At the top they are crossed by the letter X. Several pairs of bamboo supports are placed in a row. In the flyer on top, another stick is inserted horizontally. At the junction, the sticks are fastened to each other with wire or strong twine - this gives stability to the entire structure. Twine is fixed on a horizontally lying support, with the help of which lashes of cucumbers are fixed on the supports.
Bamboo trellis, intermediate horizontal crossbars additionally added.
An interesting design of trellis made of wooden slats. It is not only functional, but also very decorative.
And here is a very witty decision - the old used hockey sticks came in handy. In my opinion, it’s not difficult to do it ourselves, but it turned out very well.
How to tie up tomatoes or cucumbers on a trellis?
Watch the video. You will learn how to knit properly in the vertical cultivation of vegetables.
Trellis mesh when grown on trellis - it is very convenient not only for gardeners, but also for plants. In addition, it is a great relief for those who make the trellis themselves. It can be different - with small or large cells, thicker for large plants or threadlike for delicate flowering climbing plants.
Tapestry, vertical support can be used not only for cucumbers, tomatoes, but for beans, peas, raspberries, blackberries, various colors. With its help, you can significantly save the useful area of the garden. And the crop is increasing. A do-it-yourself trellis is an opportunity to take into account the slightest desires and growing conditions of any gardener.