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To: sockmonkey

I may have a plan now for grow arches. Lay two cattle panels out flat and tie the together with wire. Attach the boards to each end making the side pieces. Then stake one side to the ground and bow the unit into an arch and stake the second side.

I plan to grow from each side, tomatos on one side in the edge of the garden plot, the trombone squash and pickling cukes in large containers on the other in a grassy area next to the garden. I will build the containers myself out of shipping crates that I have access to. After the growing season, I could finish building a txprepper greenhouse from the arches and have a place for my peppers for the winter.

Just an idea. Plans/ideas often change; nothing is carved in stone around here. One problem that I face building anything here is there is no flat ground, everything is on a hill side, with the front being too steep for vehicles, or me.


348 posted on 01/24/2014 4:06:38 AM PST by rightly_dividing (1st Cor. 15: 1-4)
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To: rightly_dividing
I may have a plan now for grow arches.

Since the cattle panels can be slightly unwieldy..just because of their 16 foot length, I tied mine together after they were up.

Mine was an arch until after the first freeze when I decided I better get hopping.

On ther radar it looks snowy in your neck of the woods. San Antonio right now is a disaster with spun out vehicles, pile ups, and back ups where nobody is going anywhere. I'd say it was an epic fail on the part of TXDOT for SA. They knew this was coming.

349 posted on 01/24/2014 4:59:17 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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