A New Year a New Trellis

I wish I had photos of the tomato plants from last summer.  Though they never produced much fruit they managed to grow quite large and eventually pulled over 2 of the 3 cadges I had used.  Thus I decided to install a new trellis system for all the wonderful trellising plants I plan to grow this year.  I had a budget of $20.00 for this project and would have needed more had I not had screws, a laundry line and an extra piece of stabilizing wood on hand.

Behold the efforts of The Bug, myself and mostly my dad's handiwork!

For anyone interested, you could totally tackle this project with basic do it yourself skills, a drill, and a hammer.  I found this design here, and you can see from the photos where the laundry line comes into play once there are plants :)  We added a horizontal support which runs from the top of the trellis to the green fence that you can't see in this photo because of the angle.  This was an afterthought as dad mentioned that it was strong enough we could hang the kids from the trellis and of course The Bug decided she wanted to try.  Through rigorous kid testing we found that while surely stable enough for tomatoes it had a little more play than I was comfortable with for playground equipment so we thought up this solution.   The ladder was out because we were pruning back the trees near the garden, going up and down the ladder was definitely The Bug's favorite part of the day.

Even if the plants aren't spectacular this year I will have a stylish trellis to talk about!