Weft and Warp
Senior Member
How many of you have ever used cattle panels to make garden trellises or to make low cost hoop houses/greenhouses?
I ran across a few Youtube videos this Spring showing how they can be made for only a little money (about $21.00 each panel) I was inspired to try one (or two) out in my vegetable garden this year.
We have a terrible problem keeping deer out of our gardens, and after years of trying different things--fencing, netting, floating row covers, deterents either homemade or bought at garden centers--(don't work, btw)...etc. Hunting would work, but they come around and cause damage when it isn't hunting season--and by the time hunting season comes around, they dissappear.
Some of the methods were more successful than the others, but I thought I would try a garden trellis this year (protected on the ends by netting).
My father has a type of fencing that does work, but I don't like the ascethics of it for my garden.
I'm planning to use these trellises mainly as a hoop house for my taller plants like tomatoes and pole beans.
My DH used smaller hoop house rows for "His" garden last year and they worked perfectly---but they were too small for my tomatoes, so I thought I would try a "larger" version.
If any of you have done this before, I would welcome any advice.
I also hope to take pictures of the process as I go on, and can post them to show you what they look like.
I ran across a few Youtube videos this Spring showing how they can be made for only a little money (about $21.00 each panel) I was inspired to try one (or two) out in my vegetable garden this year.
We have a terrible problem keeping deer out of our gardens, and after years of trying different things--fencing, netting, floating row covers, deterents either homemade or bought at garden centers--(don't work, btw)...etc. Hunting would work, but they come around and cause damage when it isn't hunting season--and by the time hunting season comes around, they dissappear.
Some of the methods were more successful than the others, but I thought I would try a garden trellis this year (protected on the ends by netting).
My father has a type of fencing that does work, but I don't like the ascethics of it for my garden.
I'm planning to use these trellises mainly as a hoop house for my taller plants like tomatoes and pole beans.
My DH used smaller hoop house rows for "His" garden last year and they worked perfectly---but they were too small for my tomatoes, so I thought I would try a "larger" version.
If any of you have done this before, I would welcome any advice.
I also hope to take pictures of the process as I go on, and can post them to show you what they look like.