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Temporary Trellises

Want to try growing some vines this year? You don’t need to build a big, expensive structure for them. There are plenty of good reasons to go low-tech and temporary with your trellising: For example, vining veggies are easier to harvest and produce a better crop if they can grow up a support structure, but a permanent one makes it hard to rotate your crops every year. And pulling annual vines off of a trellis each fall or spring is tedious work. Let them climb biodegradable twine and you can simply cut the twine, pull up the vine and

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