Hi, this is my first HBT post. I'm about to build a hop trellis in the next few days and I was hoping you all could give me a second opinion on my hop trellis design. I mostly want to make sure this design would be structurally sounds and safe, because it will be placed in a shared community garden.
I've only been allotted a 3ft x 3ft area to grow my hops, so I have to make this amount of space work.
The design includes a 4x4 pressure treated post, sunk 3ft into the ground and filled in with dirt. The post will rise 5 ft out of the ground, then a 13ft PT 2x4 will be secured to the side of the post with 2 large lag screws, and a 5ft 2x4 will be attached to the top with 4 hop lines attached, each hop line will be spaced 1.25ft apart.
I plan to grow 2 Zeus plants in the 3 foot raised bed, spaced 1ft apart, then I will train 2 vines from each plant up the trellis.
At harvest time I should be able to unscrew 1 lag screw and pivot the top half of the trellis downward. Since this is a community garden I don't have access to a ladder.
Ideally I would like to space the hop plants further apart and space the lines further apart, but I only have a 3ftx3ft space to work with. All the hop vines will be the same variety so it should not be a big deal if they vines intermingle.
Please let me know your opinions.
http://imgur.com/25tnxHh
I've only been allotted a 3ft x 3ft area to grow my hops, so I have to make this amount of space work.
The design includes a 4x4 pressure treated post, sunk 3ft into the ground and filled in with dirt. The post will rise 5 ft out of the ground, then a 13ft PT 2x4 will be secured to the side of the post with 2 large lag screws, and a 5ft 2x4 will be attached to the top with 4 hop lines attached, each hop line will be spaced 1.25ft apart.
I plan to grow 2 Zeus plants in the 3 foot raised bed, spaced 1ft apart, then I will train 2 vines from each plant up the trellis.
At harvest time I should be able to unscrew 1 lag screw and pivot the top half of the trellis downward. Since this is a community garden I don't have access to a ladder.
Ideally I would like to space the hop plants further apart and space the lines further apart, but I only have a 3ftx3ft space to work with. All the hop vines will be the same variety so it should not be a big deal if they vines intermingle.
Please let me know your opinions.
http://imgur.com/25tnxHh