Thanks for all the details! It really helps. I especially like your flags on the anchors as I’m positive I’ll eat it. At the moment, I am planning on doing both floricane and primo, I left the cane from last year and they’re fruiting…we’ll see how long that lasts before I treat them like my elderberry and just do a big hack!
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Question about the use of metal conduit. I’m making a trellis system over a sliding door and want to use it. It will be standing in 1’ concrete and about 7’ tall. Do you think 1/2” conduit will work or I need to go with 3/4”? Current plan is to grow passionfruit on it, so, not too heavy. I’ve never had a piece of the stuff around and once I order I’m pretty much stuck with it as I don’t have a way of returning 10’ pieces.
what cable gauge are you using?
I have a rather shocking amount of emt conduit… 1/2" is strong enough for a plant trellis. I have a Subaru Forrester and 10’ conduit fits in my car if I put in it diagonally.
This video will give you some more ideas about how strong it is:
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Just finished the trellis for the blackberries.
55’ row sunk the 9.5’ hedge posts on the end 4.5’ into the ground used cheap (cheaply made too) 8’ t-posts every 7.25’, made the wire spreaders for the t-posts out of 1/2" rebar. Used double stranded, galvanized, 12 gauge, barbless barbed wire for the wire. Uses 2" angle iron from a scrapped irrigation pivot for the wire spacers on the hedge posts.
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This video had an interesting blackberry trellis in the second half. It’s sort of cantilevered over to the side. He mentions in the video that he does U-Pick, could that be related? Or is it just to allow access to the tops of the very long blackberry canes without having to prune them?
(here is a still screenshot of the trellies for those uninterested in pulling up youtube, though it is easier to get a full understanding from the multiple angles shown in the video)
Anyone have thoughts on this style?
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I assume they’re laid down like that to make covering them possible/easy. And covering doesn’t do much unless you heat or they’re close to the ground and trapping that air.
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Ah! very clever then. Thanks for the insight.
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Personally, I’d go with 3/4”. It’s not much more expensive. Id rather over build than under.
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Thanks. I had already purchased the 1/2”.
Checkout https://makerpipe.com
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Second. They have a lot of awesome ideas on their website when it comes to gardening. Last year I ordered what I need to build a bird netting frame over my container blueberry plants and need to get to that soon. The flowers are starting to appear.
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