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Hanger Trellis

Way back in 2013, My Garden Diaries did a post on building a trellis that sparked an idea for my garden this year. When building this trellis My Garden Diaries twisted simple dry cleaning hangers together to make a trellis for a morning glory to grow up the side of her barn. For My Garden Diaries original post click here!

After seeing her post, and having the need to trellis in my Square Foot Garden, I grabbed some hangers and got to work!

Initially I had intended to replicate her trellis exactly, but as I got started I realized my needs were different from My Garden Diaries needs. I needed my trellis to be exactly one foot wide with the hangers that I had, and her way of twisting them together was not wide enough. In order to make this idea of upcycling hangers to fit into my Square Foot Garden I had to insert some creativity.

I also needed my trellis to stand on its own, freely. To do this I found plenty of green poles to choose from just lying around The Garden. After digging I found two of the same length to put into the outside corners of my pole beans square in my Square Foot Garden.
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For this project I used
·        2 poles
·        6 dry cleaning hangers
·        2 dry cleaning hangers for pants (ones with cardboard roles on the bottom)
·        Wire (found in my dad's garage)
·        Pliers

And here is the end product! It was amazing how much faster my vine grew when it had something to climb on which was also pretty exciting.




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