Sunday, July 1, 2012
More trellis's from the curb
I have said before that Elaine and I are pack-rats and curb pickers. Our garden is full of trellis's that we picked up somewhere. The white porch rail is now a trellis for my 2nd crop of peas to climb. We picked the railing up with the idea of just using the spindles. I never took it apart, so now it has a new use. The white wrought iron railing we picked up without any idea of what we might use it for, it might have even been destined for the junk yard. But being pack-rats, we kept it and now it's new job is to give the gourds something to climb on. And that brings us to the rose bush I found in the old garden in our yard. I shouldn't say I found the rose bush, because I knew it was there, we just hadn't seen it in a few years. This spring when I first started cleaning the old garden, I weeded around the rose and cut out all the grape vine that was choking the rest of the plants. After getting the area cleaned of the unwanted growth, the roses and the peonies took off growing and reclaimed their garden. The rose bush had been pushed to the ground by the grape vine so I used 2 pieces of an old gazebo to make a "tepee" style trellis for the roses to grow up.
All these items I am using in my garden for either decoration or to support my vegetables came from the curb. Someone's unwanted items in the trash became a useful treasure find for us
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