How to Make a FREE Garden Trellis from Sticks

Okay, let's say a cattle panel trellis is too rich for your budget. Howsabout we make a trellis out of free stuff instead?
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Making a garden trellis doesn't have to cost anything. All you need are some sticks and twine, and maybe a machete! Today we build a trellis that looks just like it came from the Shrine.

[@fishinghole333]

That was some impressive machete whackin'! Thank you for bringing gardening back down to earth by teaching us how to grow food for almost free.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

As a broke person with very few gardening supplies I am eternally grateful! 😁

[@drewsample9610]

I saw this video, and promptly went out in the garden and made one. Thanks David.

[@ravenwolf7128]

Timely video, David! Nice to be reminded that rustic can be beautiful and functional. You are always anticipating similar ideas we have for our homestead. Namely--we are tired of dropping cash on poles and the endless infrastructure homesteading can require. We are building a temporay goat house medieval style all from larger saplings we cut by hand. Our ancestors didn't have big box stores and they did OK.

[@davidthegood]

That's awesome.

[@christophercain8749]

As a nation we seriously need to learn how to adapt to our environment. We no longer think outside the box. We all have to work on our problem solving skills. Thanks for the ideas!!!

[@marlenekirchner6052]

Totally agree

[@GDixon-ch3yl]

I love the natural trellis.😊 That would make a garden look more whimsical, fanciful, and from another time and it still gets a job done the same way😊

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

As a broke bloke who takes too many tokes, I approve of this message…😂. On a more serious note, I just hammer in individual posts, often hand cut saplings and string twine down the lines, and I haven’t had one fail yet…. I like your shire tepees👌

[@hilltophomeplace6802]

I do the same except with wire between the posts. Working out great! Gives you something to do with branches after trimming bushes.

[@davidthegood]

That's great.

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

@Nick Shannon true, before I purchased my recent car, I held up the muffler and underside guts of my 23 yr old cad with just wire…

[@tunyarenfrow7974]

This has really been helpful for me. I can't afford any more cattle panels.

[@mousiebrown1747]

David has an excellent assistant. Good job, y’all!

[@pinelandsprepping5372]

This video is right up my alley! I'd love to see more about gardening with little or no money.

[@bluejoy8869]

I love the rustic look and it blends in with the garden. Nothing wrong with using what you got. Thank you so much!

[@tomasarana8450]

I've built thousands of those here are some extra tips. They work much better with 4 legs. And also you have to put then in the right order forming something like a spiral when you tie them up. Bamboo is the best material for it but anything will work. Water the soil beforehand so it will be real easy to stick them in the ground.

[@davidthegood]

I am a big fan of bamboo.

[@davidthegood]

And thank you.

[@lucyamie7400]

I like the trellis made with sticks the best. Thank you

[@Cruise-d7o]

I also use bamboo or any available sticks👍👍

[@LibbyOnTheLabel.]

I like your very precise measurements

[@betty8173]

Well done! I enjoyed seeing your trellis making us jealous, but free is ever so much better! God bless you.

[@GrammyMidwife]

It was so nice to meet you and listen to your presentation at Keepers of the Old Ways! Thank you for your time!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you, it was wonderful meeting you!

[@SarahWhitmire]

Loved this!!! Please make more like it. 🤗

[@patriciaserdahl5577]

Absolutely love it David free scavenging materials works for me Thanks for sharing hope you have a blessed day 🙏 🇺🇸 😊

[@thadrobinson8343]

Using a tripod lashing to assemble the tepee frame might be easier than tying it up in situ. I once used bamboo to lash up tomato trellis; I didn't have any overall plan, just a bunch of tomatoes to support and bamboo to do it with. Wound up looking like a Vietcong Ewok village... with tomatoes.

[@hummingbirdhillhomestead]

Thank you so much for sharing this. Our very first garden was full of simple garden trellises like these! We grew plenty of green beans on them. Sometimes simple is best and surely much less expensive.

[@lazaruslong3D]

Home improvement and gardening centers have turned simple gardening into an expensive endeavor. I've used saplings lashed with heat-shrinkable plastic strips cut from 2-liter cola bottles and dig my compost from the woods behind the house. It all works just as well as expensive store-bought stuff.

[@davidthegood]

There you go!

[@wayfaringfarmer2724]

So weird David. 1. Literally built the same trellis today with bamboo… today 😮 2. Been adopting some of the Foundations for Farming (Farmint Gods Way) this past year!!

[@margiemurray2147]

Hello the Nana's here from Central Florida Zone 9B I'd like to challenge your subscribers and viewers to share their most frugally creative trellising ideas. Our neighbor was getting ready to throw their above ground swimming pool ladder away but I took it away from the garbage to use for our squash plant because we don't have room for it to grow in our yard. It made a nice trellis when we added some bamboo that grows in our yard along with a few zip ties here and there. All the stakes used in our yard are made from bamboo. Happy trellising.

[@tomsensible3999]

It's no trellis, but I used the tin siding from an old above ground pool to make a chicken coop's walls. The tin walls are 4 feet high, then the rest of the way up is chicken wire. Works great, and even has a sign reminding us not to dive in, stenciled every 8 feet or so. Very safe!

[@margiemurray2147]

Tom Sensible I love your ingenuity make me laugh and the "No Diving" puts it over the top bet that puts a smile on everyone's 😃

[@davidthegood]

We once used an old bed frame.

[@ashleycampbell8767]

@@tomsensible3999I hate it when I forget and dive into my chicken coop!

[@ashleycampbell8767]

@@davidthegood redneck style 😎

[@yukonsmomma3562]

Thanks David. Sometimes simple is better.

[@tunyarenfrow7974]

Once again, thank you David.

[@karenjones9422]

I make these for my tomatoes but with shorter sticks tied around them horizontally to brace them and without the long sticks on top. I pick up branches people put out on the side of the road and use those if I don't have any. Works great!

[@timothypollard4332]

The biggest thunderstorm comes when the beans are loaded.... I have never gone through a whole season without standing this kind back up at least once.

[@davidthegood]

Of course!

[@98Bafana]

The scraps and materials I get from working construction are top notch for my homesteading 💪

[@davidthegood]

That's the way to do it!

[@stevejohnson7118]

I LIKE IT!!! I’m very in to repurposing especially for the garden. My “neighbor hood watch” isn’t fond of my trellises. But when my garden is in full swing I get the neighbor of the year award .

[@Echoboom1992]

Machete gardening is the way of the future with you are the forefront

[@beareroflife]

It's the way of the past. Jibaritos been using machete to garden and farm in Puerto Rico..please look up the Arawak ,Boriquas and Jibaritos Jibaros.

[@NorthToSouthChannel]

LOVE the term "shire" teepees. I bought a house that has a tree at the back of the property with a bunch of lims that were cut and just tossed at the base... I think I might need to salvage these and make some shire teepees!

[@commonsense2462]

Love how you make nature work in your garden.

[@janebadon3988]

Oh, I like that! Rustic Charm is so pleasing to the eye!

[@SquishyTheSlime]

Your helper is lovely! I just pruned crepe myrtles and saved a lot of trunks and branches to make a grape arbor!

[@silvercurlsyaya]

Repurpose & reuse are part of my gardening design! Love the natural rustic look.

[@nancyjg1424]

Thank you David. You are inspirational and encouraging. Your energy still appears to be going strong 💪 .

[@slaplapdog]

If you are really hard up for twine, you can cut some from a plastic soda bottle. After you bind your tripod together, a candle flames worth of heat will cause it to shrink up and tighten.

[@sueyoung2115]

To put things on to the wooden post trellis,I used to tear strips of holey cotton sox .. they're compostable after a season in the sunshine, instead of zip ties. The sapling and branch trellises are so cool! Thanks

[@williambixby3785]

You had me at “what if you didn’t have any money” 😆

[@iartistdotme]

Awesome AND my 77 yo self could do it! Floppy tomatoes, here I come!

[@jeas4980]

I'm a huge fan of dumpster diving. People tear out chain link fence, old box spring mattresses, sofas, busted up beds with rails, old futons.. all the time. There is so much to be had in the way of wood, metal, springs, and other usable items at your local dump.

[@davidthegood]

Totally. I once got a wheelbarrow from a Kmart dumpster. Only thing wrong with it was a flat tire!

[@jeas4980]

@@davidthegood Nice!

[@MalkiZee]

Convenient having a forest in your backyard. Cheers

[@bonniebon7335]

😂

[@davidthegood]

Yes indeed, with plenty of invasive trees to cut down.

[@hands2hearts-seeds2feedamu83]

I have learned over the many years to be innovative, SO it cones natural NOW, I been build my new garden fence out of pallets, and placing the rabbit cages around the fence also.

[@myrrhidian3166]

My husband and I live on a wooded hill with mainly oaks. We have a lot of garden beds that need trellises, so we just scavenge fallen limbs and make triangular supports for our squash and beans. We use tarred twine, so that the trellises last more than a season. I find if I use jute, it doesn't hold up in the sun. The rustic look is nice, though with the quantity or trellises we have, our property looks more like we're defending against a cavalry charge in the revolutionary era, than a peaceful Hobbiton scene :)

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

I'm going to try this on our new grocery row garden with the (dethorned) black locust we're pollarding in a few weeks.

[@robinmarie5180]

Excellent, love that trellis.

[@djgriffin66]

Great timing - on a non existent budget in high dessert, building/living in a tiny house and trying to self-sustain and create a tiny food forest... just got a bee hive, soon bee's, got chickens and ducks.. and need to try to grow a load of pea's as the ducks eat us out of them fast ;) But the only cattle panel I have is a half width and I wanted to try it for the static chicken tractor/composting this year.... so I'd been preparing to dig holes to put tree branches in - didn't even think of a teepee - I may need to tether them to the ground due to the winds here, but still.... much easier than digging a hole in compacted clay ;) thank you :)

[@oreopaksun2512]

Yeah, it was the machete that made me jealous...gotta go sharpen mine. Thanks for a beautiful and eco in all senses trellis idea.

[@lorrie621]

This is just the trellis I need to make . I need about 10 of these for overgrown Black raspberries ! I agree they look much better than any machine made one ! Thank you

[@qualqui]

LOL...."The Trellis to make ya jealous", yes, the homemade trellis has a rustic appeal, actually harmonizing with Mother Nature but just one thing if ya'll are gonna plant corn, planting the beans at the base of the corn will provide a trellis for the bean vines while at the same time the beans infuse the soil with nitrogen, something the corn needs to fully develop to its flavorful potential.:)

[@alaskannomad]

I love this! Gonna have me some rustic trellis this year and just drool over your epic trellis. lol 😆 🤣 thanks, and God bless!!

[@andrewanderson6618]

Looking for solutions with things from around the home is also good for your brain. More solutions you come up with, then other solutions will be easier to think of

[@PK-zq2st]

Right on, good Sir the time may soon come to use these basic supply nature has provided. Probably best to practice now thank you

[@amydeik4231]

Brilliant! My wallet is going to thank me ❤

[@isabelladavis1363]

Love it! It’s living art!

[@tammystansell406]

I have a stash of saplings, wild grapevine and trimmings for projects like this ...After planting a small area last year, my three dogs couldn't resist digging. Not wanting to spend cash on fencing, I made a waddle fence, flowering vines are starting to grow through it now. It's charming! Planning to make some dewberry trellises this year and waddle fencing to protect more garden space from my furry helpers...The trellis with teepees looks great for beans or my wild dewberries, thanks for the demo!

[@davidthegood]

That's awesome. Wattle fences are really beautiful.

[@sofielys5452]

What a lovely assistent you have! 😊

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

Geemany Christmas! I spaced that off also, and I have lots of saplings that need to be cut down.... no more buying cattle panels and posts for the garden.

[@rayward9265]

Excellent! Use your existing wood supply!

[@geoffoutdoors]

I actually used sticks about 6 years ago when i first started trying to grow peas 👍 this is a good tip for anyone who wants to get the job done without spending money. It worked for ME..!

[@Trishawitchqueen]

That is brilliant. Here in the UK getting the wood is tricky. I've been going to a small wood early in the mornings with my dog and getting what I can but can't get them too long as they don't fit in the car! But I have made a few garden structures which so far have stayed up 😊

[@mrsbiodeb]

Rustic charm, indeed. :)

[@rachelhall4808]

That is speaking my language! I wanna live in the shire!

[@opalezell2166]

David I'm using bamboo pole to make mine.Thank you for helping so many who have no money.

[@davidthegood]

Bamboo is a great choice.

[@frankiaconis7788]

Great advice to use what you have and keep costs down.

[@jerrynemeth6735]

We were literally just talking about this today. Good timing!

[@goddessofgreen1]

😂 I absolutely love that, The Shire -V- The Trellis To Make You Jealous. (In my best fake English accent) The Shire style is quite stylish 🥰 (say that fast 3 times) Looks like it's time to get busy out in the yard. Thanks for the cool video.... and cool stuff for free is 🙌🎉🤗

[@shirleytruett7319]

Hi David I have those all in my garden but I used cane poles. Thanks for the video God bless you and your family ❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@geetjuhhisdebeste]

Mother nature provides it all, and David really is the good demonstrating how it's done. Thx

[@tomsensible3999]

If Necessity is the Mother of all Invention, Laziness is Invention's Dad. "Where do inventions come from?" "Well, little Timmy, when Necessity and Laziness love each other very, very much..."

[@jameszahler9575]

Wow. I came to this same idea for my tomatoes but by a different route -- bushcraft.

[@arnoldmmbb]

Love your style and fast improvisation hability Dave

[@johnsanders9683]

Bad Buds Some plants hinder other plants' growth and shouldn't be grown next to one another. Here are some bad friends: Beans: onions, garlic Cabbage: strawberries, tomatoes Caraway: dill Carrots: dill Corn: tomatoes Cucumbers: potatoes, sage Hyssop: radishes Onions: beans, peas Peas: onions, garlic, leeks Peppers: kohlrabi Potatoes: pumpkins, squash, tomatoes Radishes: cabbage Rue: sweet basil Squash: potatoes Tomatoes: cabbage, cauliflower, fennel, potatoes Turnips: potatoes

[@DanlowMusic]

I enjoy reading your books and videos! Glad I found you on here last year.

[@KEENDARLING]

Oh my!!! It is simple and beautiful I have bamboo from a neighbor's yard- and I need better trellises Love your book easy Florida gardening Thanks for all the great ideas

[@annamccosker7878]

Great hack! Thank you so much for demonstrating 🙂👍

[@jeremymonger4578]

Dave, I think you've convinced me. I need to get a machete.

[@bettyadkisson1681]

And your plants love it better too. That's what I will do this years season of growing. I cut down so saplings for the job. Between them and so grape vines that grow wildly.

[@Godisgracious85]

My goodness your smart😊 thanks for sharing ❤

[@deecooper1567]

Yep, I do the same thing 👍. Love the look of using natural 😊 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@lisagallo1745]

Yes, free and beautiful, love it 😊

[@patriciak7192]

What a great idea!! Thank you!

[@ireneisbell2004]

Thank you David . Great idea.

[@sansomspressurecleaningpoo9519]

You rock my friend. God bless you happy Easter.

[@davidthegood]

You too

[@pete7935]

That was freaking awesome!

[@a_l_e_k_sandra]

Exactly what I was planning to do!

[@michaellittlefield8629]

Great idea David!

[@mayethdelatorre6888]

Thank you for sharing this.now I'm going to try for me 😊

[@howardsportugal]

David, that road is harsh. Worked next to a motorway in the UK & could block it out mostly, but do you find it an imposition? Come & check out Portugal if ever you have a wanderlust. Without the wind, we can literally only hear the blood in our veins. Best to you & yours. Merry Christmas, may it be joyful.

[@nicholasstrain5982]

Simple and effective

[@hands2hearts-seeds2feedamu83]

I am going to need a few of those for my tomatoes

[@JoybileeFarm]

We use saplings for so much in the garden - outlining raised beds, teepees, trellises, wood sheds, but I never thought of putting a beam between two teepees. Thank you for that innovation. I love your channel. You have so many great ideas. I live in zone 3, so much of your fruit tree suggestions must be adapted to my own hardiness zone, however I get a lot of value from your ideas. I bought two of your books. 🤓 One question I had, with pruning the fruit trees low to the ground and opening them up will they break at the fork under heavy snow? In snowy areas is it better to let them have a single top?

[@davidthegood]

I am not sure.

[@davidthegood]

Though generally the trees would be leafless in snow, so accumulation should not be heavy.

[@vimondireksri8820]

If you burn the bottoms of the sticks or saplings that go in the ground the bottoms won't rot. It's a little extra work but I get an extra year out of mine, sometimes longer depending on the wood. :) Nice work there Dave 👍😊👍

[@davidthegood]

Good tip - thank you

[@rodolforodriguez4540]

Thanks for sharing

[@joyces.9021]

Perfect timing

[@maryannromero4333]

Yes! I LalalalaLove this style for you!

[@TheProCut17]

learning as we grow

[@normancupit]

Love it. In the first 40 seconds I said, "sticks. He's gonna use sticks".

[@tinaharris7382]

Thank you!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

love this, we ry to reduce our costs as much as possible, we try to reuse what ever we find on the allotment.

[@davidthegood]

It's rather like a game.

[@sharlenec7289]

Thank you going to make some to save money on cattle panels.

[@detectivemikevarnado7515]

Thank you