rebar trellis in potager
soggy6_2006
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Comments (4)There is manual equipment that environmental companies use to sample soil many feet deep (leaking heating oil tanks, etc). Sort of a pipe with a heavy surrounding weight that is repeatedly cycled. Perhaps this equipment can be rented and adapted for your use. T-posts would be plenty strong. The flukes might be damaged when driven past rocks. 3 feet deep should be plenty. That's what I use but soil rocks here are minimal....See MoreRebar Trellis Question
Comments (10)I put 5 rebar arbors in the ground over eight years ago. On the largest one I reinforced each side with a second piece of rebar and used hose clamps to fasten them together. This one did not have winter damage. But this winter two of the unreinforced arbors blew over. They are starting to rust pretty badly about 6" to 12" off of the ground and bent there when they blew over. Since I was able to pull them back up (with help) I simply reinforced the sides by driving another long piece of rebar into the side on each leg of the arbor. I fastened each old leg to the new leg beside it with bailing wire. They did stay up in the next storm and look to be OK. With growth on them they look fine. These rebar legs have been in dirt with no concrete around them for 8 years now - pretty good! Katie...See MoreVertical elements in the potager
Comments (19)My fence is chainlink. I already have to work to keep wild morning glories off of it. I don't know much about cukes, I have never grown them UP, just "along" in the garden, but I'd rather grow cukes than peas or flowers, since I can never get the small kind I like at the store. I guess I should just give it a try. I have some seeds for some pickling variety. It's not a bush variety, but I'm not sure how "viney" it gets. Any hints? Wonder if I could intertwine it with something flowery, or is that asking too much, lol!...See MoreNeed Idea Help for One End of Potager with Concrete Wall
Comments (7)Just wanted to follow up on the "eyesore" garden with the big concrete wall, across the path from my potager. I have been trying to figure out how to 1) make it NOT an eyesore, and 2) make the area part of the potager across the walk, with some feeling of continuity. The first thing I had to do was get in there and clean this little garden area up. This meant pulling tons of daylilies (they'll be back) and big weeds, and raking to leave the area so that I can put mulch in. So now there are patches of daylilies on the left and right of this garden(instead of randomly all over it), and the weeds are mostly gone. Once the daylilies were cleared out the hostas that I was going to ditch looked pretty nice, so they are staying, and our birdhouse on a post stands out among them.It's amazing how different an area can look once you have cleaned it up! Next we purchased two more white vertical trellises (square hole type, framed)to put close in front of the ugly concrete wall, connected together with the other three in a panel, with the trellises on each end curving inward, to sort of frame the garden area in the back. I'm going to transplant a mandarin honeysuckle to the back and train it up these panels. In the meantime, I got a dwarf yellow delicious apple tree at half price (what luck), and I put that in toward the front of the garden. It is aligned with the two similar trees we have down the side of our potager, so hopefully this will provide some continuity from one section to the other. We have an old (but functioning) copper birdbath that would go well in the garden, and I found a sweet bunny sundial that is little but will be a nice addition I think. I haven't decided yet whether to put a path into this new garden area; I will definitely post some pictures when this is done, so by then I will know!...See Moresoggy6_2006
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