If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 The Easiest Garden Trellis 1:26 Why I'm Trellising Melons 2:43 How To Build A Trellis 4:04 Trellis Building Demonstration 7:08 Orienting The Vines 8:09 Trellis Performance 1 Month Later 9:42 The Best Vegetables To Trellis 11:05 Adventures With Dale
You can also use masonry panels at approx $25 a panel at Lowe's, or they have ladder wire (masonry dept also) for approx $5 for approx a 10'x6" that you can wire together and stake down to form an arching trellis. Idk which is cheaper, or the best to use; cattle panels vs masonry panels/ladder 🪜 wire, but the ladder wire sure has come in handy with my cukes, squash and beans this year! Thanks for the great garden tips and videos!!
I live in Red Cross near Charlotte NC and plan to move to Venice Florida when sister moves from Long Island, NY. It's home to about a million gators and they scare me to death. Loved and enjoyed the video.
Pro tip! Go to tractor supply and ask if they have any "damaged" ones!!! I got mine half price plus a military discount! 11.49 each! Farmers don't want broken panels... the manager could t grasp why I would want "damaged" panels... ps my damaged panels were like 3 slightly missing shapen squares on the bottom!!! Don't be afraid to ask if they have any damaged ones to be sold for a discount!!!😊
@TheMillennialGardener I specifically asked the manager if he had any damaged ones.... I didn't even go out and look... he walked out... found 2 and said how about these? My farmers will n3ver by them with these busted squares! I was hoping for 15 or 20% he said 50%!
Go to Lowe's masonry dept and get ladder 🪜 wire for about $5, or get masonry panels for about $25. Not sure the cost or whether better or not, and may even weigh less than cattle panels. I rolled my ladder wires up and put them into the back of car. Something to think about. They sure have come in handy in my garden this year!
You can use different material to support watermelon, like a nylon or cloth netting material and then you need to be able to lower the netting as the melons get bigger. There are plenty of people who do this, mostly to grow them on a patio or balcony type setting. I don't do it so I don't know if I would recommend it, but it does work. I have nightmares of post hole digging. I fenced in about 1.2 acres with that metal fencing and then also made a divider between the front and back that ended up being about 150 ft. or there abouts. But that was a more sandy soil so it wasn't terrible. We have clay here and I'm too old, I'd be renting an auger because I don't like those T posts and even if I did T posts, helpful hint I'd first dig a hole about 4 - 6 inches where any post would go and then fill it in with water a couple times to get the soil wet, because dry clay soil is no fun. With a larger piece of property you can use a vehicle to put tension on the fence. At one end you put in a heavy duty post (you can later replace it if you want) and get it down into the ground to where it's not going to shift. With all the other posts in place already, stretch out the entire length of the fence, then go to each post and pound in your staples. A good sized heavy duty lawn tractor can put enough stretch on the fence. Don't stretch out the fence for one post at a time or the tension can be uneven and it will pull on those posts unevenly and some can end up leaning to one side
Yes. Doing so is a major headache, and it will probably result in crop loss. I recommend only ground-sprawling watermelons. It will save you time and you'll get a better harvest.
I made an 8-foot tall cattle panel trellis for another purpose. An alternative suggestion to the staples is to screw a heavy-duty curved hook into each 4 x 4. You then just hang each panel from the hooks and you can easily take them down by lifting. I used three 4 x 4s for each 16' panel--six hooks total to suspend the two panels, one above the other. This has been hanging in place without fail for nine years and supporting a very lush trumpet vine.
I use that concrete rebar wire which is very similar, they throw away entire huge rolls of it at the construction sites near me. Perfect for the trellis, tunnels, or upright tube's a couple feet wide to support tomato plants.
That usually rusts quickly. It's made to be installed within concrete, so it isn't coated. Cattle panel is thick, sturdy, galvanized and won't rust anytime soon. You have to be very careful or you'll have a rusty trellis you can't use or touch.
I have grown heavy pumpkins on a trellis and made hammocks out of an old sheet to support them when they got too big. Love the cattle panel trellis. Will be using it next year.
Thanks to you, my husband got our first shade cloth setup just in time to beat the severe heat. Since we are in Georgia and the garden has almost continuous sun all day, we went with the 50%. He designed his own setup to utilize things that we had. I think that he spent about $50 + 35 for the cloth. Fingers crossed 🤞
50% is quite a bit, but it will help. If you find it's too much, 30-40% does a good job. I use 40% and it works well, but it's pushing it. Any darker and I think my tomatoes and cucumbers would become leggy. Keep an eye on leaf development and make sure the plants don't get too leggy from too much shade.
@TheMillennialGardener will do. Fortunately, the entirety of the cucumbers are just outside it and one row of tomatoes are partially out. It will give us some data
I did this with smaller pieces left from a project my husband did. I used T post and zip ties in a taller container garden for cucumbers! Worked great!
I've seen people attach some of those cattle panels together, bend them into an overhead u shaped trellis attached to t posts, and grow roses, peas and many other things on them. Very handy and reasonable price.
Most of these small-fruited melons fruit within 60 days from seed. You can also grow plenty of cucumbers. There is enough time for me to start 3 more waves of cucumbers for the season, so I'd say it definitely isn't too late for anyone. There's still plenty of time to start a crop of these small-fruited vines.
I'm exploring small melons. The market is expanding beyond "watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe." Melons that are popular in other countries are making their way into the market. There is some cool stuff out there.
I am enjoying your videos so much! I've been saying, "What's growing on!?" to my husband and it makes us both laugh! You've provided lots of great tips and ideas. The drip irrigation system that you shared a while ago is back up and running for me for a 2nd summer and my tomato plants are looking fab! Amazed at how fast those melons came in! Giving me ideas for next year! Thanks so much for all the great content!!!
On my cattle panel I have cucumbers and watermelon growing over the fence. My neighbor is happy. They really are the best for vining plants! Blessings!
For years now I have grown ALL melons ALL sizes on cattle panel and always used nets to secure my melons no matter what size. There is a net for any size so grow vertical and save space.
Perfect timing. Growing Zucchini, cucumber and little pumpkins. Plan to trellis them. Have a wood fence and this idea will be great. Will have to attach a shade cloth and cover during part of day as fence is on west side of yard. I live in Ventura County CA and temps are getting pretty mean. Thank you so much for this idea. Give Dale a hug and stay cool 😉
Great video as always! I use cattle panel for my climbing roses and vine plants. I'm not a vegetable grower but cattle panel makes for excellent, affordable trellises for ornamental plants as well.
You're very lucky. I have 4 Lowe's and 2 Home Depot's locally and none carry them. You can only order them. Luckily, they put a Tractor Supply within 10-15 mins of me now.
I will try. It depends how long the melons live. My summers really beat these plants up. It's getting absurdly hot and humid, and the rains are going to start kicking in. Hopefully, they survive into the fall.
@@TheMillennialGardener I started using them last year and I make arches with them, also "tie" them together with wire to make them wider as they're only about a foot or so wide. So far they haven't rusted -- I think they're galvanized -- and they're sturdy enough to hold 1-2 cucumber plants. I've got two cantalope plants in two growbags on each end of my "rainbow concrete panel" in a super sunny area of my patio and already 4 cantalopes about the size of yours. From Atlanta (smaller gardener!)
I have those. I got the longest ones and cut them in half. One of the halves will have long spikes on one end that you can push into the ground. I wire tied a second one next to it for an L shape. I also V shape them over the top of a garden bed and have my squash tied up the trellis. But I have to warn you. I have them against my fence like that, and the rats and mice love it. From the center plank they can reach anything. Most of my tomatoes got eaten before I got to them last year, on that exact same setup. I purchased cheap slick plastic (furniture protecting plastic) to put under it next time. But this year, since my Chameleon died, all my tomatoes are in his outdoor enclosure. The best use is one against the fence, and another attached horizontally with support stakes at the other two corners. Great for Bitter Melon and Yard long beans. I also have tomatoes under it because they need bit of shade here in Southern California.
Any suggestions on how to transport a 16 foot cattle panel home from the store? I have a compact SUV with a Thule roof rack. Would buying a pair of 2” x 2” x 12’s and lashing them onto the top of the rack lengthwise and then securing the panel to those be the best method?
I put 3 of the 50in x 16ft panels in my garden this year. I'm growing cucs, squash, tomatoes, and melons. That's about 190 square feet in a garden area of about 28 square feet!! So easy to do!! I live in Denver, which receives a lot of intense sun. So, I'm going to try and seed cooler season crops later in the summer when the plants "trellis" over the panel and provide a lot of shade. I am also using 70% shade cloth because that's how strong the sun is here....works amazingly well!! Anyone else from my part of the country, the local garden centers sell the shade cloth for a fair price. Thanks for all of your suggestions!!
Truly, the hardest thing about cattle panel is getting it to your house 😂 Once you get it to your house, it's child's play. I rented a U-haul one Saturday and filled it full of cattle panel, straw bales and pickle barrels. For $80, I hit every store I needed to hit to pick up awkward items.
If you already have nails, you can use them instead of staples. Just pound them in half way, and then bend the nail upwards with the hammer. That bed is beautiful! I thought at the start you might have planted too much in that bed, but it looks just perfect.
It's an awesome bed. Great investment. I placed a link to the exact bed in the video description. I'm really happy with it. It looks better than my garden!
It just rained for the first time in weeks. 0.20 inches. But we are supposed to get hit tonight by something. We'll see. My grass is like french fries.
I always buy the 16' panels because that is the best buy, and then my husband cuts them in half because all of my beds are only 8' long. We use heavy duty zip ties fastened to t-posts and it works beautifully.
Very nice. I used 4 of those cattle panels in conjunction with 16-6ft & 8-8ft T-posts for a massive loofah arch. I have 12 plants growing on this massive 14ft long, 10ft wide, 9ft tall arch. Should be cool when all the loofahs reach maturity.
I think I mess up with my loofa I put one 16 foot panel arch with three plants they done went up the top and coming down again I think I should've use one plant
@michaelmosley254 yeah, they basically grow till there's no more room. I'm gonna have train them to go around if they make it all the way to the other side.
How many times did you verify that panel was perfectly centered before you drove in all those staples? And how many times did you re-check it after a lot were in? Not that I'm judging (though I possibly am projecting). Good video. I have an arch made of a cattle panel and some conduit that I'm using for things like chayote squash and soon Armenian cucumbers, but this is a great idea for the shorter melons. I can already see where I could put it against a fence in my yard. Thanks for posting, and with an update.
Love your videos! Younsaved me a load of money on shade cloth. We are in the texas panhandle and have an abundance of wind and sun! What gauge cattle panels did you use? I want to make arch trellises between my raised beds.
This is considerably more secure than t-posts, and then you don't have to buy t-posts. It's easy to direct the vines. Check on them once every 3-4 days and make sure nothing gets pinned behind.
Good afternoon my friend I have tried my best to follow your advice on how to grow cucumbers and I have huge plants but most of the cucumbers turn yellow and fall off what do I do?
@@TheMillennialGardener LOL I have felt those fence staples and due to the weight shipping alone for 2 dozen could easily be double that price. Congrats on the great deal!!
It's a lot of effort trying to support melons with vines that can't handle their own weight. I recommend trellising fruits where the vines can support the weight of the fruit. I let the heavier melons and squashes crawl on top of weed barrier or a tarp.
I have been a subscriber for years. Don't know if you answer questions here but I'm at wit's end....I don't know why I am having such tomato trouble. I live on the Gulf Coast Zone 9a. I now have 13 non-cherry tomato plants that are not producing and 14 cherry varieties - some of which have produced a few cherry tomatoes. I have lost 14 plants to fusarium wilt. When you were putting a sunshade on your garden, I did the same (40%). They are staked with the same hanging system you use, I planted them using amny of your yoru recomended practices. I have done some fertilizing. I have been checking for worms, etc. and picking them off or about 3 times now have sprayed spinosad. (The sun shade seems to have lessened the pest load significantly). Many hours of work of work for no results. Any thoughts? Thanks for any help you might have.
Hey Man, what's your advice for SVB's this time of year? I found a channel that suggested a paste of Elmers glue and DTE and it actually seems to be working. Will report back in a week or so.
Yes but you have to be able to use a post hole digger. Since I don’t have the physical strength to do that, will have to skip this project. However great job on the video!
You don't need a post hole digger. You can just bang a t-post into the ground. The t-post pounder does all the work for you. You just raise it up and drop it. T-posts will hold it in place. If you want to use a wood post, you can also use or rent an auger.
@@TheMillennialGardenergood insight as always. I guess, then, it makes most sense to budget enough trellis space to accommodate the inevitable sprawl. Cheers from coastal SC. It’s great having one of the best gardening YTers so germane to my location and conditions. That said I tend to be behind you as much as a couple of months for things… that’s what a knowledge and time gap will give you. Shade cloth goes up this week!
I grew pumpkin on one last year. Trying to grow a really big pumpkin this year,compost pile plus some cleanings from the chicken coup. Fertilizer and urinate on the pile when I’m out there. Any other tips would be appreciated.
I've only grown pumpkins once. All I can say is be sure to give them plenty of fertilizer and keep a constant eye on the undersides of the leaves for pest eggs. I don't have a good climate for it due to the humidity and pest pressure.
QUESTION: Can you please address how to trim off the tops of Indeterminate tomatoes? I have them on the string trellis system but they have out grown the hoops. I saw another YTer suggesting to lower the plant's "vine" down to allow more space at the top. If it did that, it would break my plant a its green, moist & not brown & dry like the ones in his video. So, if I prune the IN tomatoes right above the suckers, wouldn't that cause them to create their fruit faster, since the plant isn't supporting the growth above them?? I can't find anyone who addresses this. HELP!!
When you string trellis, you don't top the plants. You simply unspool the twine and drop them. Every time you unspool the twine, you'll drop the plants around 6 inches. I have a video on the procedure here: ruclips.net/video/G08MDkN8UTQ/видео.htmlsi=qSgqTgFb7EFdw04S I do not like pruning tomatoes, because it spreads disease like wildfire here. I try to not cut them and just deal with the growth. I'd rather have unruly plants than dying plants.
I wish I could do this. My HOA will not allow those items in my yard. I have been using a long potted decorative pot. It can not be attached to my black open aluminum fence. I can only use pots on my patio. I am using tomato cages. I may have to get another one and turn it upside down n cut the long legs off to form a trellis? I hope you have a better solution?
I'm adamantly against that method. It is so much additional work. When you have 10-20 melons, you'll constantly be chasing your tail, the "hammocks" get wet and fail or come untied, it's a big headache. Letting watermelons sprawl on the ground is basically no effort.
Gator attacks are *extremely* rare. It's fear based on how they look. They aren't much of a threat unless you sneak up on them or you do something crazy like swim with them.
Home depot has the Landscape timbers for $4.38 a timber . I'm hoping t5hat we can use this to help these large shopping outlets hoping they will not raise priced but to make more money so they don't have to raise prices .
Question... do you think melons would grow on the north side of a fence in Texas? Its so hot in the summer they would get some shade but dint know if itd maybe be too much shade.
Small melons, yes. I don't think you'd be able to grow large watermelons, for example, but the small melons that I'm growing in this video will probably thrive. It's worth trying.
There is no way to have a pest-free garden. All you can do is manage them. The best solutions I have found is to grow an enormous diversity of plants, flowers and fruit trees where something is always blooming. That will attract as many predatory insects as possible. Then, cover everything that can be covered with insect netting. Then, clean up any edges with natural insecticides. I have videos archived here: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIG0SVll6H6boefbbL1-V5fo&si=5i9dMTuHcV42H6VK When I moved here, I had awful insect problems, because my yard was just sand and grass. Now that I've built out a food forest, I have less insects, because I have about 10 million lizards and dragonflies living here now. But I still have to spray some.
No. I do not trellis melons that are too large for the vines to support. It's too much work to do so. All of these melons can support their own weight. For the large melons, I let them sprawl on the ground on top of my weed barrier.
I've used rebar reinforcement panels for years. Fraction of the cost. They Rust but so what?! Once the rust encaspulates the metal they basically stop rusting. For the $ i Save I can buy 30-50% more panels. Agree on the heavy Melons, they just don't work being trellised due to the weight
Germinate them indoors. Your climate is probably too hot outdoors to germinate them. If you don't have air conditioning inside the house to cool them off, you can place the seed trays in the refrigerator overnight, then take them back out during the day. This simulates temperate spring weather - cool night, warm day, etc.
Most zucchini varieties are vines. They're not vines in the same way that cucumbers and lemons are vines - they're thicker and slower growing - but they're vines. Some are bush types, though, so you have to be careful not to get a bush variety.
A great variety is Black Forest which climbs like a cucumber up a trellis. I have not been able to find this variety for some time so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction Thank you
It's very easy. I made a list of every single large item I needed for the year and rented a Uhaul for a total cost of $80. I got all my cattle panel, lumber, pickle barrels, straw bales, etc. in one trip. I made a morning out of it: ruclips.net/video/sXqoiLGslsU/видео.htmlsi=NjLKDFpLWT37xsjQ Make a laundry list of every large item you need for your home for the year and get it all in one trip. It'll cost you less than a single delivery fee.
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 The Easiest Garden Trellis
1:26 Why I'm Trellising Melons
2:43 How To Build A Trellis
4:04 Trellis Building Demonstration
7:08 Orienting The Vines
8:09 Trellis Performance 1 Month Later
9:42 The Best Vegetables To Trellis
11:05 Adventures With Dale
You can also use masonry panels at approx $25 a panel at Lowe's, or they have ladder wire (masonry dept also) for approx $5 for approx a 10'x6" that you can wire together and stake down to form an arching trellis. Idk which is cheaper, or the best to use; cattle panels vs masonry panels/ladder 🪜 wire, but the ladder wire sure has come in handy with my cukes, squash and beans this year!
Thanks for the great garden tips and videos!!
I live in Red Cross near Charlotte NC and plan to move to Venice Florida when sister moves from Long Island, NY. It's home to about a million gators and they scare me to death. Loved and enjoyed the video.
Great idea! And I always love Adventures with Dale!
Pro tip! Go to tractor supply and ask if they have any "damaged" ones!!! I got mine half price plus a military discount! 11.49 each! Farmers don't want broken panels... the manager could t grasp why I would want "damaged" panels... ps my damaged panels were like 3 slightly missing shapen squares on the bottom!!! Don't be afraid to ask if they have any damaged ones to be sold for a discount!!!😊
Interesting. When I went, they were all pristine. But they don't have to be perfect to use as a trellis.
@TheMillennialGardener I specifically asked the manager if he had any damaged ones.... I didn't even go out and look... he walked out... found 2 and said how about these? My farmers will n3ver by them with these busted squares! I was hoping for 15 or 20% he said 50%!
@@jujube2407that’s a great tip! I got mine on sale but when we go back I will certainly ask!
Go to Lowe's masonry dept and get ladder 🪜 wire for about $5, or get masonry panels for about $25. Not sure the cost or whether better or not, and may even weigh less than cattle panels. I rolled my ladder wires up and put them into the back of car. Something to think about.
They sure have come in handy in my garden this year!
Thanks for your tip
I appreciate how you show the "after X days" of your ideas so we know it is working/what to expect.
Thanks! I try to film some of these videos over time so everyone can see the before and after.
Holy crap you guys, he finally used the cattle panel!
I'm tired of tripping over it.
@@TheMillennialGardener Idk man, the unused trellising materials sitting around might have been your most relatable feature for lots of us 😂
Making my neighbours jealous is #3 on my summer to-do list after growing vegetables and catching a fly in mid air.
You can use different material to support watermelon, like a nylon or cloth netting material and then you need to be able to lower the netting as the melons get bigger. There are plenty of people who do this, mostly to grow them on a patio or balcony type setting.
I don't do it so I don't know if I would recommend it, but it does work.
I have nightmares of post hole digging. I fenced in about 1.2 acres with that metal fencing and then also made a divider between the front and back that ended up being about 150 ft. or there abouts. But that was a more sandy soil so it wasn't terrible. We have clay here and I'm too old, I'd be renting an auger because I don't like those T posts and even if I did T posts, helpful hint I'd first dig a hole about 4 - 6 inches where any post would go and then fill it in with water a couple times to get the soil wet, because dry clay soil is no fun.
With a larger piece of property you can use a vehicle to put tension on the fence. At one end you put in a heavy duty post (you can later replace it if you want) and get it down into the ground to where it's not going to shift. With all the other posts in place already, stretch out the entire length of the fence, then go to each post and pound in your staples. A good sized heavy duty lawn tractor can put enough stretch on the fence. Don't stretch out the fence for one post at a time or the tension can be uneven and it will pull on those posts unevenly and some can end up leaning to one side
If you want to trellis watermelon plants you will need to support the fruits by wrapping it in an old t-shirt and tying it into the trellis
Yes. Doing so is a major headache, and it will probably result in crop loss. I recommend only ground-sprawling watermelons. It will save you time and you'll get a better harvest.
I have an 18' pea,bean,cucumber+cantaloupe archway with my 4 cattle panels, it supports over 50 plants!
That's what I originally wanted to do with these panels, but I ran out of space. I'll use them like this instead.
I made an 8-foot tall cattle panel trellis for another purpose. An alternative suggestion to the staples is to screw a heavy-duty curved hook into each 4 x 4. You then just hang each panel from the hooks and you can easily take them down by lifting. I used three 4 x 4s for each 16' panel--six hooks total to suspend the two panels, one above the other. This has been hanging in place without fail for nine years and supporting a very lush trumpet vine.
Thats the only way to roll. Still a good video but way over stapled it.
Use pantyhose to support heavier melons when growing vertically.
I use that concrete rebar wire which is very similar, they throw away entire huge rolls of it at the construction sites near me. Perfect for the trellis, tunnels, or upright tube's a couple feet wide to support tomato plants.
That usually rusts quickly. It's made to be installed within concrete, so it isn't coated. Cattle panel is thick, sturdy, galvanized and won't rust anytime soon. You have to be very careful or you'll have a rusty trellis you can't use or touch.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes mine is all rusty now and doesn't seem to bother the plants. Or me.
I have grown heavy pumpkins on a trellis and made hammocks out of an old sheet to support them when they got too big. Love the cattle panel trellis. Will be using it next year.
Thanks to you, my husband got our first shade cloth setup just in time to beat the severe heat. Since we are in Georgia and the garden has almost continuous sun all day, we went with the 50%. He designed his own setup to utilize things that we had. I think that he spent about $50 + 35 for the cloth. Fingers crossed 🤞
50% is quite a bit, but it will help. If you find it's too much, 30-40% does a good job. I use 40% and it works well, but it's pushing it. Any darker and I think my tomatoes and cucumbers would become leggy. Keep an eye on leaf development and make sure the plants don't get too leggy from too much shade.
@TheMillennialGardener will do. Fortunately, the entirety of the cucumbers are just outside it and one row of tomatoes are partially out. It will give us some data
I did this with smaller pieces left from a project my husband did. I used T post and zip ties in a taller container garden for cucumbers! Worked great!
Thanks so much for another great garden tour and some great garden information gardens looking beautiful and thanks for sharing it
I've seen people attach some of those cattle panels together, bend them into an overhead u shaped trellis attached to t posts, and grow roses, peas and many other things on them. Very handy and reasonable price.
That was my original intent of buying these, but I ran out of space. I don't really have anywhere left in my yard to do that, so I'm repurposing them.
I cant wait to try this next year. It's too late here in Utah. Your live the other day was awesome also.
Most of these small-fruited melons fruit within 60 days from seed. You can also grow plenty of cucumbers. There is enough time for me to start 3 more waves of cucumbers for the season, so I'd say it definitely isn't too late for anyone. There's still plenty of time to start a crop of these small-fruited vines.
Interesting melons I have not heard of. I will give them a try next season hopefully.
I'm exploring small melons. The market is expanding beyond "watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe." Melons that are popular in other countries are making their way into the market. There is some cool stuff out there.
Fantastic idea. I have grown sugar baby watermelons on a trellis. I used the hammock method to support them and it worked perfectly ❤️
I am enjoying your videos so much! I've been saying, "What's growing on!?" to my husband and it makes us both laugh! You've provided lots of great tips and ideas. The drip irrigation system that you shared a while ago is back up and running for me for a 2nd summer and my tomato plants are looking fab! Amazed at how fast those melons came in! Giving me ideas for next year! Thanks so much for all the great content!!!
On my cattle panel I have cucumbers and watermelon growing over the fence. My neighbor is happy. They really are the best for vining plants! Blessings!
I wish I didn't put it off for so long. I think over the winter I am going to install another bed and cattle panel to trellis more things.
@@TheMillennialGardener it’s the best!
For years now I have grown ALL melons ALL sizes on cattle panel and always used nets to secure my melons no matter what size. There is a net for any size so grow vertical and save space.
Perfect timing. Growing Zucchini, cucumber and little pumpkins. Plan to trellis them. Have a wood fence and this idea will be great. Will have to attach a shade cloth and cover during part of day as fence is on west side of yard. I live in Ventura County CA and temps are getting pretty mean. Thank you so much for this idea. Give Dale a hug and stay cool 😉
Great video as always! I use cattle panel for my climbing roses and vine plants. I'm not a vegetable grower but cattle panel makes for excellent, affordable trellises for ornamental plants as well.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Lowes and Home Depot in SW FLorida, carry them in the store. Thanks for the video!
You're very lucky. I have 4 Lowe's and 2 Home Depot's locally and none carry them. You can only order them. Luckily, they put a Tractor Supply within 10-15 mins of me now.
Loved the video. Please do an update video later in the season. I’d love to see a wall of vines and fruit. ❤
I will try. It depends how long the melons live. My summers really beat these plants up. It's getting absurdly hot and humid, and the rains are going to start kicking in. Hopefully, they survive into the fall.
Thanks Anthony. Love the cattle panels. Thumbs up. Hugs to Dale.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
We use watermelon hammocks. We are trying passion fruit on a trellis this year.
OMG I wish I could taste home grown passion fruit! Where are you growing?
@@katekramer7679 Zone 9B
I have used the rolls of concrete reinforcing wire for tomato
cages forever at least 40 years and they last longer
Do they rust? That's the downside about concrete wire. Since it's designed to be embedded in concrete, it usually rusts quickly.
@@TheMillennialGardener I started using them last year and I make arches with them, also "tie" them together with wire to make them wider as they're only about a foot or so wide. So far they haven't rusted -- I think they're galvanized -- and they're sturdy enough to hold 1-2 cucumber plants. I've got two cantalope plants in two growbags on each end of my "rainbow concrete panel" in a super sunny area of my patio and already 4 cantalopes about the size of yours. From Atlanta (smaller gardener!)
Thank you for this idea.
I will implement it in my garden.
You're welcome!
Love this video and this idea!! I have a privacy fence, so this is a perfect solution for my vining fruits and vegetables. Thank you so much!
I have those. I got the longest ones and cut them in half. One of the halves will have long spikes on one end that you can push into the ground. I wire tied a second one next to it for an L shape. I also V shape them over the top of a garden bed and have my squash tied up the trellis.
But I have to warn you. I have them against my fence like that, and the rats and mice love it. From the center plank they can reach anything. Most of my tomatoes got eaten before I got to them last year, on that exact same setup. I purchased cheap slick plastic (furniture protecting plastic) to put under it next time. But this year, since my Chameleon died, all my tomatoes are in his outdoor enclosure.
The best use is one against the fence, and another attached horizontally with support stakes at the other two corners. Great for Bitter Melon and Yard long beans. I also have tomatoes under it because they need bit of shade here in Southern California.
Awesome !
Thank you!
Any suggestions on how to transport a 16 foot cattle panel home from the store? I have a compact SUV with a Thule roof rack. Would buying a pair of 2” x 2” x 12’s and lashing them onto the top of the rack lengthwise and then securing the panel to those be the best method?
I put 3 of the 50in x 16ft panels in my garden this year. I'm growing cucs, squash, tomatoes, and melons. That's about 190 square feet in a garden area of about 28 square feet!! So easy to do!! I live in Denver, which receives a lot of intense sun. So, I'm going to try and seed cooler season crops later in the summer when the plants "trellis" over the panel and provide a lot of shade. I am also using 70% shade cloth because that's how strong the sun is here....works amazingly well!! Anyone else from my part of the country, the local garden centers sell the shade cloth for a fair price. Thanks for all of your suggestions!!
Truly, the hardest thing about cattle panel is getting it to your house 😂 Once you get it to your house, it's child's play. I rented a U-haul one Saturday and filled it full of cattle panel, straw bales and pickle barrels. For $80, I hit every store I needed to hit to pick up awkward items.
If you already have nails, you can use them instead of staples. Just pound them in half way, and then bend the nail upwards with the hammer. That bed is beautiful! I thought at the start you might have planted too much in that bed, but it looks just perfect.
It's an awesome bed. Great investment. I placed a link to the exact bed in the video description. I'm really happy with it. It looks better than my garden!
Great information, your videos are very helpful!👍🌱
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Yeah! We finally got some rain here in NC. I hope you got some of it as well.
It just rained for the first time in weeks. 0.20 inches. But we are supposed to get hit tonight by something. We'll see. My grass is like french fries.
I always buy the 16' panels because that is the best buy, and then my husband cuts them in half because all of my beds are only 8' long. We use heavy duty zip ties fastened to t-posts and it works beautifully.
That's a good idea!
Nice work my friend ❤❤🎉
Thanks!
OMG the pests here in Florida...
Thanks for so many different ideas and inspiration for the future
Great idea! I have a wooden fence, and that would work great for my garden. Gators, oh my!!
I love gators. They're amazing. They want nothing to do with us. If you get within 30 feet of them, they jump into the water and run away.
Very nice. I used 4 of those cattle panels in conjunction with 16-6ft & 8-8ft T-posts for a massive loofah arch. I have 12 plants growing on this massive 14ft long, 10ft wide, 9ft tall arch. Should be cool when all the loofahs reach maturity.
That sounds neat. One day, if I make it down to Florida, I'd like to do that with passionfruit. Those passionfruit hedges are amazing.
I think I mess up with my loofa I put one 16 foot panel arch with three plants they done went up the top and coming down again I think I should've use one plant
@michaelmosley254 yeah, they basically grow till there's no more room. I'm gonna have train them to go around if they make it all the way to the other side.
Would love to see how you set up the other trellis that you have for your containers that appears in 3:26
I have all the builds archived here: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFLZ7_GvDMcqll1Sx6PS2jO&si=OsTxQe2l5CHkt7xh
I love this video!!! We just started our honey dew. 😊💕We were trying to figure out which trellis would work. Thank you 😊 💕👍🏻
You're welcome!
Dude your brain is great and I appreciate you sharing your great ideas.
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Excellent!!! Thank you Sir!!!
You're welcome!
You can also get cattle panels at Rural King.
Rural King Has them for a great price . I'm hoping they can move to Kingsport Tennessee , so I don't have to travel so long .
The tricky part is always getting them home. After that, it's easy 😅
Great tils
Thank you for more helpful information. Didn't know about 'gaitors in North Carolina.
You're welcome! I love seeing the gators. They're so cool.
How many times did you verify that panel was perfectly centered before you drove in all those staples? And how many times did you re-check it after a lot were in? Not that I'm judging (though I possibly am projecting).
Good video. I have an arch made of a cattle panel and some conduit that I'm using for things like chayote squash and soon Armenian cucumbers, but this is a great idea for the shorter melons. I can already see where I could put it against a fence in my yard. Thanks for posting, and with an update.
Lucky neighbor to have you on the other side of the fence!
He's like me. He has grapes, citrus, I gave him 2 fig trees and a persimmon, etc. We have a thing going on 😄
@@TheMillennialGardener Cool! Mutually beneficial.
Great job 🙌🙌🙌
Thank you!
Love your videos! Younsaved me a load of money on shade cloth. We are in the texas panhandle and have an abundance of wind and sun! What gauge cattle panels did you use? I want to make arch trellises between my raised beds.
Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
You're welcome!
I would have attached it to the t posts a foot away from the fence so melons don’t get stuck between the panel and the fence.
This is considerably more secure than t-posts, and then you don't have to buy t-posts. It's easy to direct the vines. Check on them once every 3-4 days and make sure nothing gets pinned behind.
Good afternoon my friend I have tried my best to follow your advice on how to grow cucumbers and I have huge plants but most of the cucumbers turn yellow and fall off what do I do?
Tractor Supply and Lowes carry fence staples.
They're a lot cheaper online, though. That entire box was like $6 shipped to my door.
@@TheMillennialGardener LOL I have felt those fence staples and due to the weight shipping alone for 2 dozen could easily be double that price. Congrats on the great deal!!
Awesome. Something I’ve been searching for.🎉
Glad it was helpful!
“Gator needs his gat back” ❤
I have small round melon short trelis worken last year with pantyhose hammocks
It's a lot of effort trying to support melons with vines that can't handle their own weight. I recommend trellising fruits where the vines can support the weight of the fruit. I let the heavier melons and squashes crawl on top of weed barrier or a tarp.
A good feed store will carry those panels.
Ty I enjoyed this video 🌱🌱🌱
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good job!
Thank you!
Use the metal zip ties to attach to t-post! The plastic ones always degrade in the sun and collapse at the worst possible time.
No need for anything that heavy of wire gauge. With good anchors a light page wire works perfectly.
Any farm & ranch supply store will have the panels.
Thank you! Gonna do this for my zucchini!
It will work if they're a vining type. Just make sure you aren't growing a bush zucchini or it won't work.
@@TheMillennialGardener yep they are vines.
Wire mesh for concrete reinforcement is a cheaper alternative
This is a lot sturdier and large, though. One piece is all you need.
You need to use a melon hammock. Because…melons will drop when they are ripe unlike squashes.
I have been a subscriber for years. Don't know if you answer questions here but I'm at wit's end....I don't know why I am having such tomato trouble. I live on the Gulf Coast Zone 9a. I now have 13 non-cherry tomato plants that are not producing and 14 cherry varieties - some of which have produced a few cherry tomatoes. I have lost 14 plants to fusarium wilt. When you were putting a sunshade on your garden, I did the same (40%). They are staked with the same hanging system you use, I planted them using amny of your yoru recomended practices. I have done some fertilizing. I have been checking for worms, etc. and picking them off or about 3 times now have sprayed spinosad. (The sun shade seems to have lessened the pest load significantly). Many hours of work of work for no results. Any thoughts? Thanks for any help you might have.
Hey Man, what's your advice for SVB's this time of year?
I found a channel that suggested a paste of Elmers glue and DTE and it actually seems to be working. Will report back in a week or so.
Yes but you have to be able to use a post hole digger. Since I don’t have the physical strength to do that, will have to skip this project. However great job on the video!
You don't need a post hole digger. You can just bang a t-post into the ground. The t-post pounder does all the work for you. You just raise it up and drop it. T-posts will hold it in place. If you want to use a wood post, you can also use or rent an auger.
Do you prune suckers to keep a single manageable vine, or do you let it go nuts?
I don't prune much anymore. Pruning attracts pests, stresses the plant and spreads disease. I limit open wounds on the plants.
@@TheMillennialGardenergood insight as always. I guess, then, it makes most sense to budget enough trellis space to accommodate the inevitable sprawl.
Cheers from coastal SC. It’s great having one of the best gardening YTers so germane to my location and conditions. That said I tend to be behind you as much as a couple of months for things… that’s what a knowledge and time gap will give you. Shade cloth goes up this week!
@@TheMillennialGardeneralso, don’t forget hammocks for your trellised melons! They’re easy to make or buy, definitely worth a mention.
I grew pumpkin on one last year. Trying to grow a really big pumpkin this year,compost pile plus some cleanings from the chicken coup. Fertilizer and urinate on the pile when I’m out there. Any other tips would be appreciated.
I've only grown pumpkins once. All I can say is be sure to give them plenty of fertilizer and keep a constant eye on the undersides of the leaves for pest eggs. I don't have a good climate for it due to the humidity and pest pressure.
Strange question, but why can I not save this video? There is no "save" button like on other videos. Any idea?
QUESTION: Can you please address how to trim off the tops of Indeterminate tomatoes?
I have them on the string trellis system but they have out grown the hoops.
I saw another YTer suggesting to lower the plant's "vine" down to allow more space at the top. If it did that, it would break my plant a its green, moist & not brown & dry like the ones in his video.
So, if I prune the IN tomatoes right above the suckers, wouldn't that cause them to create their fruit faster, since the plant isn't supporting the growth above them??
I can't find anyone who addresses this.
HELP!!
When you string trellis, you don't top the plants. You simply unspool the twine and drop them. Every time you unspool the twine, you'll drop the plants around 6 inches. I have a video on the procedure here: ruclips.net/video/G08MDkN8UTQ/видео.htmlsi=qSgqTgFb7EFdw04S
I do not like pruning tomatoes, because it spreads disease like wildfire here. I try to not cut them and just deal with the growth. I'd rather have unruly plants than dying plants.
Hmmm I wanna attach the cattle panel to the wire tall privacy fence
I wish I could do this. My HOA will not allow those items in my yard. I have been using a long potted decorative pot. It can not be attached to my black open aluminum fence. I can only use pots on my patio. I am using tomato cages. I may have to get another one and turn it upside down n cut the long legs off to form a trellis? I hope you have a better solution?
Can you not install a wooden fence? The HOA can't do anything if they can't see it behind a wooden fence.
You can grow watermelon vertically. Ask your wife to donate her old pantyhose. Cut it to make a little hammock for the fruit.
I'm adamantly against that method. It is so much additional work. When you have 10-20 melons, you'll constantly be chasing your tail, the "hammocks" get wet and fail or come untied, it's a big headache. Letting watermelons sprawl on the ground is basically no effort.
In case nobody has told you, dogs are like candy to gaters.
Gator attacks are *extremely* rare. It's fear based on how they look. They aren't much of a threat unless you sneak up on them or you do something crazy like swim with them.
Home depot has the Landscape timbers for $4.38 a timber . I'm hoping t5hat we can use this to help these large shopping outlets hoping they will not raise priced but to make more money so they don't have to raise prices .
I used landscaping timber for my apples. It's been in ground for 3 years and still in good shape.
Question... do you think melons would grow on the north side of a fence in Texas? Its so hot in the summer they would get some shade but dint know if itd maybe be too much shade.
Small melons, yes. I don't think you'd be able to grow large watermelons, for example, but the small melons that I'm growing in this video will probably thrive. It's worth trying.
Does the metal fence get too hot mid summer for the vines?
No. It does not heat up at all, even in direct sunlight. It is always cool to the touch. It is not an effective conductor of heat.
Hi bro. love your videos .bro what can i do to get my garden pests free?the Organic way.
There is no way to have a pest-free garden. All you can do is manage them. The best solutions I have found is to grow an enormous diversity of plants, flowers and fruit trees where something is always blooming. That will attract as many predatory insects as possible. Then, cover everything that can be covered with insect netting. Then, clean up any edges with natural insecticides. I have videos archived here: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIG0SVll6H6boefbbL1-V5fo&si=5i9dMTuHcV42H6VK
When I moved here, I had awful insect problems, because my yard was just sand and grass. Now that I've built out a food forest, I have less insects, because I have about 10 million lizards and dragonflies living here now. But I still have to spray some.
@@TheMillennialGardenerthanks for the advice.👍
I have an out building can staple to it full sun
As long as you don't mind placing nail holes into the building, that will work.
As the melons get larger, will you need to use a sling to give them extra support?
No. I do not trellis melons that are too large for the vines to support. It's too much work to do so. All of these melons can support their own weight. For the large melons, I let them sprawl on the ground on top of my weed barrier.
I need to know everything about your espalier apple trees
I have a playlist dedicated to espalier here. It's the same procedure: ruclips.net/p/PL1gY7BoYBGIFlbg2ri_7gCJPhXaZ_nOvy&si=_iLhdFyGo1E36ZhS
In the words of Mr. Fred Rogers, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" 😅
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Sure wish I had a wooden fence
You can make your own with t-posts or wood 4x4's if you don't have a fence.
I've used rebar reinforcement panels for years. Fraction of the cost. They Rust but so what?! Once the rust encaspulates the metal they basically stop rusting. For the $ i Save I can buy 30-50% more panels. Agree on the heavy Melons, they just don't work being trellised due to the weight
I live in Thailand, how do I get sugar peas to germinate quickly please?.
David.
Germinate them indoors. Your climate is probably too hot outdoors to germinate them. If you don't have air conditioning inside the house to cool them off, you can place the seed trays in the refrigerator overnight, then take them back out during the day. This simulates temperate spring weather - cool night, warm day, etc.
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We saw gators in Smith Creek Park in the Murraysville section of Wilmington!
They're pretty common here if you look for them. They're not Florida levels of common, but they're around.
You mentioned vining zucchini. I can’t find a supplier anywhere, any suggestions?
Love the channel
Most zucchini varieties are vines. They're not vines in the same way that cucumbers and lemons are vines - they're thicker and slower growing - but they're vines. Some are bush types, though, so you have to be careful not to get a bush variety.
A great variety is Black Forest which climbs like a cucumber up a trellis. I have not been able to find this variety for some time so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction
Thank you
They are called handy panels.
What’s your watering schedule? Did you hand water them?
Watering is based on weather conditions. It will be different from location to location, climate to climate, soil type to soil type.
in our tractor supply, they dont have that smaller one. they have that very big and heavy cattle panel.
This is the very big, heavy cattle panel. It's the 50 inch x 16 ft panels that pretty much all locations carry.
I'd like to set one up but i have no clue how i'd get it home
It's very easy. I made a list of every single large item I needed for the year and rented a Uhaul for a total cost of $80. I got all my cattle panel, lumber, pickle barrels, straw bales, etc. in one trip. I made a morning out of it: ruclips.net/video/sXqoiLGslsU/видео.htmlsi=NjLKDFpLWT37xsjQ
Make a laundry list of every large item you need for your home for the year and get it all in one trip. It'll cost you less than a single delivery fee.