KennyRedman
Active Member
Here's my trellis project I just finished up last night. I got started a bit later than I wanted to this year unfortunately, but being first-year plants, everything should be cool. It's 40' long and the cable is 15' tall. Thanks to everyone here for all the good ideas and inspiration!
Here's the final product:
I planted 8 rhizomes a few weeks ago. 2 each of Cascade, Chinook, Nugget, and CTZ. I later received 2 Centennial plants and 2 Sorachi Ace plants:
They started sprouting in no time. I used a mix of dirt from when we expanded some flower beds and some bagged garden soil:
Off they go:
I started off by marking where I wanted it to go. This area gets the most sun in our back yard. It's 40' long x 3 1/2' wide:
I then cut the edges:
I used my mulching mower to scalp all the grass down and removed as much sod as I could:
I borrowed my friend's 4HP tiller to break up the soil.
The ground was sooo hard, that I had to break it up first with my trusted shovel:
More shoveling and tilling:
I added several hundred pounds of compost and manure and some sand to amend the clay soil:
Soil's all ready:
I dug 3-1/2" holes for the posts:
Got 2 6" Red Pine posts from Sugar Creek Hops:
After cutting the posts down to 19.5', I attached 2 large eyebolts to the top of each post. One faces inwards for the cable, and one faces outwards in case I need to add reinforcement cables.
Plumbed them with 2x4's:
Backfilled them and tamped them really good:
Now it was finally time to get the plants in the ground. I spaced them at 3' apart:
I installed a winch to raise and lower the cable. Makes stringing and cutting them down easy:
Strung up all the coir with clove hitch knots. They can easily be slid around to line up with the plant:
I then raised the cable, staked the ends of the coir, and trained 7 or 8 of the plants that were ready:
All done!
Here's the final product:
I planted 8 rhizomes a few weeks ago. 2 each of Cascade, Chinook, Nugget, and CTZ. I later received 2 Centennial plants and 2 Sorachi Ace plants:
They started sprouting in no time. I used a mix of dirt from when we expanded some flower beds and some bagged garden soil:
Off they go:
I started off by marking where I wanted it to go. This area gets the most sun in our back yard. It's 40' long x 3 1/2' wide:
I then cut the edges:
I used my mulching mower to scalp all the grass down and removed as much sod as I could:
I borrowed my friend's 4HP tiller to break up the soil.
The ground was sooo hard, that I had to break it up first with my trusted shovel:
More shoveling and tilling:
I added several hundred pounds of compost and manure and some sand to amend the clay soil:
Soil's all ready:
I dug 3-1/2" holes for the posts:
Got 2 6" Red Pine posts from Sugar Creek Hops:
After cutting the posts down to 19.5', I attached 2 large eyebolts to the top of each post. One faces inwards for the cable, and one faces outwards in case I need to add reinforcement cables.
Plumbed them with 2x4's:
Backfilled them and tamped them really good:
Now it was finally time to get the plants in the ground. I spaced them at 3' apart:
I installed a winch to raise and lower the cable. Makes stringing and cutting them down easy:
Strung up all the coir with clove hitch knots. They can easily be slid around to line up with the plant:
I then raised the cable, staked the ends of the coir, and trained 7 or 8 of the plants that were ready:
All done!
