Budget DIY Trellis & Garden Space Tip

Today’s feature is from Diggin Food with this idea for an Inexpensive DIY Vegetable Trellis:

Budget Trellis Idea By digginfood.com

My kitchen garden is small—just under 200 square feet—but I managed to cram a ton of vegetables into it by growing summer and winter squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, and peas up trellises. Growing these crops up instead of out frees up a bunch of real estate in our raised beds for beets, carrots, salad greens, flowers, and herbs.

We install a lot of freestanding trellises made out of bamboo and cedar, but last summer we decided to convert our west-facing, 6-foot tall fence into a growing space by installing panels of welded wire mesh on it. The mesh is sold at hardware stores for concrete reinforcing. We bought mesh with four-inch square holes and each 4-foot by 6-foot piece cost less than five dollars. The grand total for this super functional trellis? Fifteen bucks

You’re going to need some fence space to keep the trellis cost low, but it’s well worth it to grow up as the tip suggests–you can squeeze a lot more garden into limited growing space. Plus, if your fence is a bit shabby looking–what better way to hide it !

Please visit the site above for more details on setup–and check out their gorgeous garden pics too (I’m so ready for spring!).

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