Gettin’ Stuff Done – Garden Trellises
It has been a long term goal of mine to spruce up the back yard a bit, especially around the patio. The uneven flagstone and concrete patio definitely feels harsh when you first walk out, but seeing the piles of wood yet to be split, the broken concrete driveway, and the entire yard… I’m not going to say I was looking for a warm zen feeling when we walked outside, but rather more it always left me with a sense of being exposed and functioned as a constant reminder of all the things I have left to do.
A trip to Home Depot provided the inspiration of using Garden Trellises; but they were $15+ each! I estimated we’d need about 5-6 of them, which meant about $90 worth of supplies. Turns out we’d wind up needing 8, bringing the total cost to $120. Screw that! We bought some weather treated 2x4s and ripped them into 1x1s. Five 2x4s yielded enough material for 8 trellises which took a total of about an hour to build once I had a pattern down.
Installing them wasn’t very difficult either. A small sledge hammer, tall ladder and some elbow grease. I did use some spare 1x1s to run a string level around the patio to get all of them installed as close to evenly as humanly possible. Unfortunately, the 1x1s have little ability to resist any twisting forces from installation, so a couple of them are a little crooked. They’ll get supported soon.
