Here’s a bunch of ways you can make trellises for both vegetable and flower beds, many are simple in design (and to make) while others are more detailed and fancy (with a bit of woodworking skill required). Quite a selection of materials used such as bamboo, wooden poles and sticks, lumber, wire mesh, etc. A couple of the projects below have been featured previously on Tipnut and moved here for better organization. Enjoy!
Wood A-Frame: With some plywood, hardware cloth, fasteners, basic tools, and a little time, you can fashion a hinged A-frame trellis to support peas, beans, tomatoes, or other vining plants.
DIY Bamboo Project: Made with several canes of bamboo in different diameters and lashing cord.
Rustic Design: Simple project made from prunings or substitute 1-by-1 stakes from the nursery or lumberyard. The finished structure is 7 feet 4 1/2 inches tall and 3 feet wide.
For Roses: The instructions are for an eight-by-four-foot trellis with a three-quarter-inch thickness, the strips of wood are spaced three inches apart.
Rustic Ti-pi Tutorial: Made with three to six poles, 1 1/2″ to 2 1/2″ in diameter and 4′ to 7′ long, copper or galvanized steel wire and grapevines or flexible willow branches.
Bamboo & String Tee-Pee: Made to accommodate peas and cucumbers using scrap bamboo sticks tied together with cotton string.
Freestanding: Ideal for climbing flowers and plants, finished size measures 3′ wide x 18″ deep x 6’3″ tall. Skill level: Intermediate.
Decorative Wire: Wire fencing is cut to length, rolled then painted metal straps are attached with 18-gauge wire.
Vintage Tip
Directions:
- Sharpen end and drive in ground. Use staples (like for a wire fence) to fasten the hangers to the board.
- Tie up plants with strip of old sheets.
It is soft and doesn’t cut in. Can be taken up and used for a long time.
Clean and paint before storing away for fall.
Source: Women’s Household, 1963
The coat hanger trellis is such a great idea! I will be making a few for my tomatoes.I will be putting it in some sort of container though. The soil here in Florida is to sandy to grow a good crop, plus the stakes i used last year kept falling over when pushed into the ground.
Which would work best for grapevines?
Ma’am lora the best for grapevines is the first one (digginfood) or you can make your own using bamboo like im planning heheh
All great ideas. Thank you.
what if i use hook to make trellis?how far apart should i make it?
If I put a trellis against the south side of my house (dark cedar), is there a certain plant that could withstand the heat?