As a nation we seriously need to learn how to adapt to our environment. We no longer think outside the box. We all have to work on our problem solving skills. Thanks for the ideas!!!
I've built thousands of those here are some extra tips. They work much better with 4 legs. And also you have to put then in the right order forming something like a spiral when you tie them up. Bamboo is the best material for it but anything will work. Water the soil beforehand so it will be real easy to stick them in the ground.
Timely video, David! Nice to be reminded that rustic can be beautiful and functional. You are always anticipating similar ideas we have for our homestead. Namely--we are tired of dropping cash on poles and the endless infrastructure homesteading can require. We are building a temporay goat house medieval style all from larger saplings we cut by hand. Our ancestors didn't have big box stores and they did OK.
As a broke bloke who takes too many tokes, I approve of this message…😂. On a more serious note, I just hammer in individual posts, often hand cut saplings and string twine down the lines, and I haven’t had one fail yet…. I like your shire tepees👌
Hello the Nana's here from Central Florida Zone 9B I'd like to challenge your subscribers and viewers to share their most frugally creative trellising ideas. Our neighbor was getting ready to throw their above ground swimming pool ladder away but I took it away from the garbage to use for our squash plant because we don't have room for it to grow in our yard. It made a nice trellis when we added some bamboo that grows in our yard along with a few zip ties here and there. All the stakes used in our yard are made from bamboo. Happy trellising.
It's no trellis, but I used the tin siding from an old above ground pool to make a chicken coop's walls. The tin walls are 4 feet high, then the rest of the way up is chicken wire. Works great, and even has a sign reminding us not to dive in, stenciled every 8 feet or so. Very safe!
Using a tripod lashing to assemble the tepee frame might be easier than tying it up in situ. I once used bamboo to lash up tomato trellis; I didn't have any overall plan, just a bunch of tomatoes to support and bamboo to do it with. Wound up looking like a Vietcong Ewok village... with tomatoes.
I LIKE IT!!! I’m very in to repurposing especially for the garden. My “neighbor hood watch” isn’t fond of my trellises. But when my garden is in full swing I get the neighbor of the year award .
So weird David. 1. Literally built the same trellis today with bamboo… today 😮 2. Been adopting some of the Foundations for Farming (Farmint Gods Way) this past year!!
Thank you so much for sharing this. Our very first garden was full of simple garden trellises like these! We grew plenty of green beans on them. Sometimes simple is best and surely much less expensive.
Looking for solutions with things from around the home is also good for your brain. More solutions you come up with, then other solutions will be easier to think of
I make these for my tomatoes but with shorter sticks tied around them horizontally to brace them and without the long sticks on top. I pick up branches people put out on the side of the road and use those if I don't have any. Works great!
LOVE the term "shire" teepees. I bought a house that has a tree at the back of the property with a bunch of lims that were cut and just tossed at the base... I think I might need to salvage these and make some shire teepees!
If you are really hard up for twine, you can cut some from a plastic soda bottle. After you bind your tripod together, a candle flames worth of heat will cause it to shrink up and tighten.
To put things on to the wooden post trellis,I used to tear strips of holey cotton sox .. they're compostable after a season in the sunshine, instead of zip ties. The sapling and branch trellises are so cool! Thanks
My husband and I live on a wooded hill with mainly oaks. We have a lot of garden beds that need trellises, so we just scavenge fallen limbs and make triangular supports for our squash and beans. We use tarred twine, so that the trellises last more than a season. I find if I use jute, it doesn't hold up in the sun. The rustic look is nice, though with the quantity or trellises we have, our property looks more like we're defending against a cavalry charge in the revolutionary era, than a peaceful Hobbiton scene :)
Great timing - on a non existent budget in high dessert, building/living in a tiny house and trying to self-sustain and create a tiny food forest... just got a bee hive, soon bee's, got chickens and ducks.. and need to try to grow a load of pea's as the ducks eat us out of them fast ;) But the only cattle panel I have is a half width and I wanted to try it for the static chicken tractor/composting this year.... so I'd been preparing to dig holes to put tree branches in - didn't even think of a teepee - I may need to tether them to the ground due to the winds here, but still.... much easier than digging a hole in compacted clay ;) thank you :)
I'm a huge fan of dumpster diving. People tear out chain link fence, old box spring mattresses, sofas, busted up beds with rails, old futons.. all the time. There is so much to be had in the way of wood, metal, springs, and other usable items at your local dump.
I have learned over the many years to be innovative, SO it cones natural NOW, I been build my new garden fence out of pallets, and placing the rabbit cages around the fence also.
Home improvement and gardening centers have turned simple gardening into an expensive endeavor. I've used saplings lashed with heat-shrinkable plastic strips cut from 2-liter cola bottles and dig my compost from the woods behind the house. It all works just as well as expensive store-bought stuff.
I actually used sticks about 6 years ago when i first started trying to grow peas 👍 this is a good tip for anyone who wants to get the job done without spending money. It worked for ME..!
The biggest thunderstorm comes when the beans are loaded.... I have never gone through a whole season without standing this kind back up at least once.
This is just the trellis I need to make . I need about 10 of these for overgrown Black raspberries ! I agree they look much better than any machine made one ! Thank you
I have a stash of saplings, wild grapevine and trimmings for projects like this ...After planting a small area last year, my three dogs couldn't resist digging. Not wanting to spend cash on fencing, I made a waddle fence, flowering vines are starting to grow through it now. It's charming! Planning to make some dewberry trellises this year and waddle fencing to protect more garden space from my furry helpers...The trellis with teepees looks great for beans or my wild dewberries, thanks for the demo!
Geemany Christmas! I spaced that off also, and I have lots of saplings that need to be cut down.... no more buying cattle panels and posts for the garden.
That is brilliant. Here in the UK getting the wood is tricky. I've been going to a small wood early in the mornings with my dog and getting what I can but can't get them too long as they don't fit in the car! But I have made a few garden structures which so far have stayed up 😊
Vines, inner bark rolled into string, interlocking branches, rope, etc. Also Jute twine which he is using predates the pioneers by at least a few thousand years.
you can make twine out of grass, inner bark of trees and vines, etc. let the material dry once, then wet it and do a basic cordage twist. In DtG's case, the Assistant Trellis Holder could make the twine while DtG gets the lumber together.
Oh my!!! It is simple and beautiful I have bamboo from a neighbor's yard- and I need better trellises Love your book easy Florida gardening Thanks for all the great ideas
And your plants love it better too. That's what I will do this years season of growing. I cut down so saplings for the job. Between them and so grape vines that grow wildly.
😂 I absolutely love that, The Shire -V- The Trellis To Make You Jealous. (In my best fake English accent) The Shire style is quite stylish 🥰 (say that fast 3 times) Looks like it's time to get busy out in the yard. Thanks for the cool video.... and cool stuff for free is 🙌🎉🤗
LOL...."The Trellis to make ya jealous", yes, the homemade trellis has a rustic appeal, actually harmonizing with Mother Nature but just one thing if ya'll are gonna plant corn, planting the beans at the base of the corn will provide a trellis for the bean vines while at the same time the beans infuse the soil with nitrogen, something the corn needs to fully develop to its flavorful potential.:)
We use saplings for so much in the garden - outlining raised beds, teepees, trellises, wood sheds, but I never thought of putting a beam between two teepees. Thank you for that innovation. I love your channel. You have so many great ideas. I live in zone 3, so much of your fruit tree suggestions must be adapted to my own hardiness zone, however I get a lot of value from your ideas. I bought two of your books. 🤓 One question I had, with pruning the fruit trees low to the ground and opening them up will they break at the fork under heavy snow? In snowy areas is it better to let them have a single top?
If you burn the bottoms of the sticks or saplings that go in the ground the bottoms won't rot. It's a little extra work but I get an extra year out of mine, sometimes longer depending on the wood. :) Nice work there Dave 👍😊👍
If Necessity is the Mother of all Invention, Laziness is Invention's Dad. "Where do inventions come from?" "Well, little Timmy, when Necessity and Laziness love each other very, very much..."
Yes, that will work! The trees I was using were "popcorn trees," which is one of the worst invasives in the south. We're clearing them out so we can grow fruit instead.
That was some impressive machete whackin'! Thank you for bringing gardening back down to earth by teaching us how to grow food for almost free.
As a nation we seriously need to learn how to adapt to our environment. We no longer think outside the box. We all have to work on our problem solving skills. Thanks for the ideas!!!
Totally agree
I saw this video, and promptly went out in the garden and made one. Thanks David.
I love the natural trellis.😊 That would make a garden look more whimsical, fanciful, and from another time and it still gets a job done the same way😊
This has really been helpful for me. I can't afford any more cattle panels.
I've built thousands of those here are some extra tips. They work much better with 4 legs. And also you have to put then in the right order forming something like a spiral when you tie them up. Bamboo is the best material for it but anything will work. Water the soil beforehand so it will be real easy to stick them in the ground.
I am a big fan of bamboo.
And thank you.
I like the trellis made with sticks the best. Thank you
I also use bamboo or any available sticks👍👍
Timely video, David! Nice to be reminded that rustic can be beautiful and functional.
You are always anticipating similar ideas we have for our homestead. Namely--we are tired of dropping cash on poles and the endless infrastructure homesteading can require. We are building a temporay goat house medieval style all from larger saplings we cut by hand. Our ancestors didn't have big box stores and they did OK.
That's awesome.
As a broke bloke who takes too many tokes, I approve of this message…😂. On a more serious note, I just hammer in individual posts, often hand cut saplings and string twine down the lines, and I haven’t had one fail yet…. I like your shire tepees👌
I do the same except with wire between the posts. Working out great! Gives you something to do with branches after trimming bushes.
That's great.
@Nick Shannon true, before I purchased my recent car, I held up the muffler and underside guts of my 23 yr old cad with just wire…
You had me at “what if you didn’t have any money” 😆
This video is right up my alley! I'd love to see more about gardening with little or no money.
Hello the Nana's here from Central Florida Zone 9B I'd like to challenge your subscribers and viewers to share their most frugally creative trellising ideas. Our neighbor was getting ready to throw their above ground swimming pool ladder away but I took it away from the garbage to use for our squash plant because we don't have room for it to grow in our yard. It made a nice trellis when we added some bamboo that grows in our yard along with a few zip ties here and there. All the stakes used in our yard are made from bamboo. Happy trellising.
It's no trellis, but I used the tin siding from an old above ground pool to make a chicken coop's walls. The tin walls are 4 feet high, then the rest of the way up is chicken wire. Works great, and even has a sign reminding us not to dive in, stenciled every 8 feet or so. Very safe!
Tom Sensible I love your ingenuity make me laugh and the "No Diving" puts it over the top bet that puts a smile on everyone's 😃
We once used an old bed frame.
@@tomsensible3999I hate it when I forget and dive into my chicken coop!
@@davidthegood redneck style 😎
I love the rustic look and it blends in with the garden. Nothing wrong with using what you got. Thank you so much!
David has an excellent assistant. Good job, y’all!
Using a tripod lashing to assemble the tepee frame might be easier than tying it up in situ.
I once used bamboo to lash up tomato trellis; I didn't have any overall plan, just a bunch of tomatoes to support and bamboo to do it with. Wound up looking like a Vietcong Ewok village... with tomatoes.
Well done! I enjoyed seeing your trellis making us jealous, but free is ever so much better! God bless you.
Absolutely love it David free scavenging materials works for me Thanks for sharing hope you have a blessed day 🙏 🇺🇸 😊
It was so nice to meet you and listen to your presentation at Keepers of the Old Ways! Thank you for your time!
Thank you, it was wonderful meeting you!
I LIKE IT!!! I’m very in to repurposing especially for the garden. My “neighbor hood watch” isn’t fond of my trellises. But when my garden is in full swing I get the neighbor of the year award .
Loved this!!! Please make more like it. 🤗
So weird David.
1. Literally built the same trellis today with bamboo… today 😮
2. Been adopting some of the Foundations for Farming (Farmint Gods Way) this past year!!
Excellent! Use your existing wood supply!
I like your very precise measurements
Thank you so much for sharing this. Our very first garden was full of simple garden trellises like these! We grew plenty of green beans on them. Sometimes simple is best and surely much less expensive.
Machete gardening is the way of the future with you are the forefront
It's the way of the past. Jibaritos been using machete to garden and farm in Puerto Rico..please look up the Arawak ,Boriquas and Jibaritos Jibaros.
The scraps and materials I get from working construction are top notch for my homesteading 💪
That's the way to do it!
Looking for solutions with things from around the home is also good for your brain. More solutions you come up with, then other solutions will be easier to think of
Thanks David. Sometimes simple is better.
Once again, thank you David.
I make these for my tomatoes but with shorter sticks tied around them horizontally to brace them and without the long sticks on top. I pick up branches people put out on the side of the road and use those if I don't have any. Works great!
Your helper is lovely! I just pruned crepe myrtles and saved a lot of trunks and branches to make a grape arbor!
Convenient having a forest in your backyard. Cheers
😂
Yes indeed, with plenty of invasive trees to cut down.
LOVE the term "shire" teepees. I bought a house that has a tree at the back of the property with a bunch of lims that were cut and just tossed at the base... I think I might need to salvage these and make some shire teepees!
Oh, I like that! Rustic Charm is so pleasing to the eye!
Awesome AND my 77 yo self could do it! Floppy tomatoes, here I come!
Love how you make nature work in your garden.
Right on, good Sir the time may soon come to use these basic supply nature has provided. Probably best to practice now thank you
If you are really hard up for twine, you can cut some from a plastic soda bottle.
After you bind your tripod together, a candle flames worth of heat will cause it to shrink up and tighten.
To put things on to the wooden post trellis,I used to tear strips of holey cotton sox .. they're compostable after a season in the sunshine, instead of zip ties. The sapling and branch trellises are so cool! Thanks
Thank you David. You are inspirational and encouraging. Your energy still appears to be going strong 💪 .
That was freaking awesome!
I love this! Gonna have me some rustic trellis this year and just drool over your epic trellis. lol 😆 🤣 thanks, and God bless!!
My husband and I live on a wooded hill with mainly oaks. We have a lot of garden beds that need trellises, so we just scavenge fallen limbs and make triangular supports for our squash and beans. We use tarred twine, so that the trellises last more than a season. I find if I use jute, it doesn't hold up in the sun. The rustic look is nice, though with the quantity or trellises we have, our property looks more like we're defending against a cavalry charge in the revolutionary era, than a peaceful Hobbiton scene :)
Great timing - on a non existent budget in high dessert, building/living in a tiny house and trying to self-sustain and create a tiny food forest... just got a bee hive, soon bee's, got chickens and ducks.. and need to try to grow a load of pea's as the ducks eat us out of them fast ;) But the only cattle panel I have is a half width and I wanted to try it for the static chicken tractor/composting this year.... so I'd been preparing to dig holes to put tree branches in - didn't even think of a teepee - I may need to tether them to the ground due to the winds here, but still.... much easier than digging a hole in compacted clay ;) thank you :)
Yeah, it was the machete that made me jealous...gotta go sharpen mine. Thanks for a beautiful and eco in all senses trellis idea.
I'm a huge fan of dumpster diving. People tear out chain link fence, old box spring mattresses, sofas, busted up beds with rails, old futons.. all the time. There is so much to be had in the way of wood, metal, springs, and other usable items at your local dump.
Totally. I once got a wheelbarrow from a Kmart dumpster. Only thing wrong with it was a flat tire!
@@davidthegood Nice!
I have learned over the many years to be innovative, SO it cones natural NOW, I been build my new garden fence out of pallets, and placing the rabbit cages around the fence also.
Great hack! Thank you so much for demonstrating 🙂👍
Home improvement and gardening centers have turned simple gardening into an expensive endeavor. I've used saplings lashed with heat-shrinkable plastic strips cut from 2-liter cola bottles and dig my compost from the woods behind the house. It all works just as well as expensive store-bought stuff.
There you go!
Repurpose & reuse are part of my gardening design! Love the natural rustic look.
Excellent, love that trellis.
That is speaking my language! I wanna live in the shire!
I'm going to try this on our new grocery row garden with the (dethorned) black locust we're pollarding in a few weeks.
Dave, I think you've convinced me. I need to get a machete.
I actually used sticks about 6 years ago when i first started trying to grow peas 👍 this is a good tip for anyone who wants to get the job done without spending money. It worked for ME..!
The biggest thunderstorm comes when the beans are loaded.... I have never gone through a whole season without standing this kind back up at least once.
Of course!
This is just the trellis I need to make . I need about 10 of these for overgrown Black raspberries ! I agree they look much better than any machine made one ! Thank you
I have a stash of saplings, wild grapevine and trimmings for projects like this ...After planting a small area last year, my three dogs couldn't resist digging. Not wanting to spend cash on fencing, I made a waddle fence, flowering vines are starting to grow through it now. It's charming! Planning to make some dewberry trellises this year and waddle fencing to protect more garden space from my furry helpers...The trellis with teepees looks great for beans or my wild dewberries, thanks for the demo!
That's awesome. Wattle fences are really beautiful.
What a lovely assistent you have! 😊
learning as we grow
Love it! It’s living art!
Geemany Christmas! I spaced that off also, and I have lots of saplings that need to be cut down.... no more buying cattle panels and posts for the garden.
We were literally just talking about this today. Good timing!
David I'm using bamboo pole to make mine.Thank you for helping so many who have no money.
Bamboo is a great choice.
Yes! I LalalalaLove this style for you!
Exactly what I was planning to do!
That is brilliant. Here in the UK getting the wood is tricky. I've been going to a small wood early in the mornings with my dog and getting what I can but can't get them too long as they don't fit in the car! But I have made a few garden structures which so far have stayed up 😊
Mother nature provides it all, and David really is the good demonstrating how it's done. Thx
Thank you
Great advice to use what you have and keep costs down.
What did pioneers use instead of string? Old vines? Branches with side branch stubs to lock in place the teepee?
Vines, inner bark rolled into string, interlocking branches, rope, etc. Also Jute twine which he is using predates the pioneers by at least a few thousand years.
you can make twine out of grass, inner bark of trees and vines, etc. let the material dry once, then wet it and do a basic cordage twist. In DtG's case, the Assistant Trellis Holder could make the twine while DtG gets the lumber together.
Oh my!!! It is simple and beautiful
I have bamboo from a neighbor's yard- and I need better trellises
Love your book easy Florida gardening
Thanks for all the great ideas
Hi David I have those all in my garden but I used cane poles. Thanks for the video God bless you and your family ❤️🙏❤️🙏
Bad Buds
Some plants hinder other plants' growth and shouldn't be grown next to one another. Here are some bad friends: Beans: onions, garlic
Cabbage: strawberries, tomatoes
Caraway: dill
Carrots: dill
Corn: tomatoes
Cucumbers: potatoes, sage
Hyssop: radishes
Onions: beans, peas
Peas: onions, garlic, leeks
Peppers: kohlrabi
Potatoes: pumpkins, squash, tomatoes
Radishes: cabbage
Rue: sweet basil
Squash: potatoes
Tomatoes: cabbage, cauliflower, fennel,
potatoes
Turnips: potatoes
What a great idea!! Thank you!
And your plants love it better too. That's what I will do this years season of growing. I cut down so saplings for the job. Between them and so grape vines that grow wildly.
Thanks for sharing
😂 I absolutely love that, The Shire -V- The Trellis To Make You Jealous. (In my best fake English accent) The Shire style is quite stylish 🥰 (say that fast 3 times) Looks like it's time to get busy out in the yard. Thanks for the cool video.... and cool stuff for free is 🙌🎉🤗
Thanks for showing this or I’m thinking about going back to old ways… off grid… Need ideas
Yes, free and beautiful, love it 😊
LOL...."The Trellis to make ya jealous", yes, the homemade trellis has a rustic appeal, actually harmonizing with Mother Nature but just one thing if ya'll are gonna plant corn, planting the beans at the base of the corn will provide a trellis for the bean vines while at the same time the beans infuse the soil with nitrogen, something the corn needs to fully develop to its flavorful potential.:)
Yep, I do the same thing 👍. Love the look of using natural 😊
👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Rustic charm, indeed. :)
Wow. I came to this same idea for my tomatoes but by a different route -- bushcraft.
That is great!!
Simple and effective
I enjoy reading your books and videos! Glad I found you on here last year.
We use saplings for so much in the garden - outlining raised beds, teepees, trellises, wood sheds, but I never thought of putting a beam between two teepees. Thank you for that innovation. I love your channel. You have so many great ideas. I live in zone 3, so much of your fruit tree suggestions must be adapted to my own hardiness zone, however I get a lot of value from your ideas. I bought two of your books. 🤓 One question I had, with pruning the fruit trees low to the ground and opening them up will they break at the fork under heavy snow? In snowy areas is it better to let them have a single top?
I am not sure.
Though generally the trees would be leafless in snow, so accumulation should not be heavy.
You rock my friend. God bless you happy Easter.
You too
Love your style and fast improvisation hability Dave
Great idea David!
Thank you for sharing this.now I'm going to try for me 😊
I am going to need a few of those for my tomatoes
If you burn the bottoms of the sticks or saplings that go in the ground the bottoms won't rot. It's a little extra work but I get an extra year out of mine, sometimes longer depending on the wood. :) Nice work there Dave 👍😊👍
Good tip - thank you
Perfect timing
My goodness your smart😊 thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you David . Great idea.
Thank you going to make some to save money on cattle panels.
If Necessity is the Mother of all Invention, Laziness is Invention's Dad.
"Where do inventions come from?" "Well, little Timmy, when Necessity and Laziness love each other very, very much..."
I couldn't hack up a baby tree. I just trimmed up my crepe myrtles, could use those branches. The pile is about the size of a school bus!!.
Yes, that will work! The trees I was using were "popcorn trees," which is one of the worst invasives in the south. We're clearing them out so we can grow fruit instead.
Thank you!
metal hangers, also work instead of twine, you might have some laying around
rather, hanging around