For climbing cultures to grow normally vertically, support is needed. Do-it-yourself trellis for climbing plants is easy. It is installed anywhere. Trellis can be removed when the summer season has come to an end.
Varieties
Trellis for cucumbers, raspberries, roses or grapes has varieties. A person should familiarize themselves with them and decide what is right for him. Supports are:
- Single plane. These are various lattices, partitions, fences.
- Two-plane. It can be balconies, arches.
The first species is better to choose for small areas, young shrubs. The bushes, which are very large, will fit the second option. Using a two-plane trellis you can save space, provide an excellent crop.
Production material
Most often, wood is used for trellis racks. It is made of slats or planed type material. Not only wood is used, there are also metal, plastic, forged, bamboo trellises. Sometimes, a conventional wire is used for the construction.
The material must be resistant to corrosion, tolerate different weather conditions. After all, the structure is not hidden, but is in the open. Of course, if it is not placed in a greenhouse.
The shape of wooden structures
For the planned design, it is important to choose the right shape. Wooden garden trellises are best made square or rectangular. The shape must be cellular. The design will be stronger if the cells are smaller. It is recommended to combine cells of different sizes: first make large, and then small.
To make the trellis for climbing plants with your own hands done as efficiently as possible, add metal staples, corners. They are placed at the junction of the rails.
The two-plane frame should be greater than 2.5 cm in thickness. This allows you to serve the design as a support for plants of any kind. Such rose trellises can be made without wall mounts.
Form of constructions from other materials
Tapestry for climbing plants, made of plastic, wire and metal, can be of various shapes. It is made arched, fan-shaped, horizontal, S-shaped, sliding, tent. Such designs replace many decorated elements, designed for summer cottages. Using trellises make vineyards a dream. Attention should be paid to plant varieties, as sometimes it will be necessary to use special forms.
Support Requirements
The trellis for climbing plants with their own hands is created strong, stable, one that could withstand a strong wind. There are such requirements for the constructed support:
- it is required to build a foundation or deeply dig the structural supports;
- climbing plants must climb a rough surface, otherwise they will not be able to hold.
DIY support
Roses that are woven look very harmoniously on the metal structures made in the form of a column. It is not difficult to build such a support. This is done as follows.
- Pour the foundation of concrete.
- Install 4 metal pins.
- They need to weld the transverse rings, which are made of thick wire.
- Ultimately, roses will braid this support. It can be other plants. Sometimes a support is decorated, it is made, for example, in the form of the Eiffel Tower, while the crossbars are openwork.
- The design made is well fixed to the surface.
Sometimes trellis for raspberries, grapes, cucumbers and other weaving plants is done in a more complex way. This requires:
- bars from a tree measuring 0.3x3 cm;
- drill;
- hacksaw;
- chisel;
- round bars;
- self-tapping screws;
- antiseptic mixture;
- dowels (the diameter is 9 cm);
- screwdriver;
- brushes, paint;
- glue which sticks together wood.
The trellis at the dacha is mainly made in the form of a rectangle, therefore, for construction, boards are required that form the frame. Usually two-meter bars are taken. The frame is being built, the longitudinal bars are attached. The distance between them is determined depending on the plant that the design will support. Between the constructed crossbeams, transverse
wooden bars are attached
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It is required that the bars are well pressed to the crossbars. Because of this, small incisions are made with a chisel. In order to fasten the wooden elements, use waterproof glue. Sometimes they use self-tapping screws, this allows you to strengthen the structure. While the trellis for cucumbers, grapes, raspberries or other plants is being prepared, since the glue must dry, a wall is selected where it will be attached. Then mark the place of attachment, drill holes for dowels.
The design itself needs to be soaked with antiseptic fluids, this will create protection against insects and increased moisture. Trellis for raspberries, grapes, cucumbers and other plants can be painted. Color is chosen at your own discretion. There is also another option: varnish.
After the work done, the trellis is installed on the wall. It is used as a support for any plants that curl.
Vineyard
In the case when the grapes are planted not near the house, but away from it, for example, in the garden, you should take a different approach to the construction of the structure. If small plants are supposed to be placed on the trellis, low supports are made to facilitate their growth. But the grapes are gradually growing, after which small structures are not able to withstand it. Because of this, more durable trellises are made, for example, using wire.
For this, two supports are built, they are buried deeply, at 60 cm,. A wire is pulled between them. The supports are made with a thickness of about 15 cm, and in height they should rise by 2.3 m, or even more. Between the posts there is a different length, it is about 2.5 m. Additional supports are also attached, the thickness of which depends on the stems of the plant. By the way, to make the grapes grow better, the trellis is sent south.
To build a support with your own hands, it is better to use strong wood, such as oak or ash. In addition, mulberries, acacia, and chestnuts are often used, since these tree species are quite solid. But birch, alder and poplar are not advised to use. The support of these trees will be unreliable. Wet or young wood is not suitable for the construction, since the material must be dry.
It is recommended to use a tree that is cleaned from the top layer, treated with antiseptic mixtures. It is wrapped with special waterproofing material. Zinc-coated wire is ideal as it lasts a long time and looks aesthetically pleasing. The lowest row is mounted at a height of half a meter above the ground, and the next rows are pulled at the same distance from each other. This design is usually 3-4 rows of wire.
Used for support and metal, concrete columns. Metal structures do not differ in size from
wooden supports. To make holes for attaching the wire, you need to drill holes. In this case, you cannot use staples, as was done with wood. But such trellises should not be used if the grapes have grown greatly. It will be necessary to build two-plane structures here, but they are difficult to manufacture.
Interesting solutions
For plants that grow low, for example, for a cucumber, simple supports can be used. To do this, it is enough to drive the pegs into the ground near each plant, and pull the ropes up from them. Cucumber will be able to reach up on such structures. Also in such situations, plastic supports are often used. But it is worth considering that they are not able to withstand heavy plants.
It's important to know
The support for grapes must be approached carefully, since with proper construction it will be of great benefit. Some rules should be considered so that the design lasts a long time.
It's important to know:
- Supports for grapes should be placed from north to south. They do this so that the bushes are illuminated by the sun on both sides equally.
- From time to time, it is necessary to process steel parts with a tool that fights corrosion. Wooden elements are treated with preparations that destroy the fungus.
- Trellis can be deformed or sag. To prevent this from happening, reinforcements are made using the transverse axes and crossbars.
Supports can last a long time, while only benefiting the plants. This requires spending more time on their construction, including imagination, and implementing all measures to protect the material that was used. In this case, the vineyard will delight its owner, bear fruit, develop over a long time. Many factors should be considered when making supports for other climbing plants.