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cattle panel Arched Trellis

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If you don't mind it being rusty go to a builders' merchant and look at the wire mesh they use for reinforcing concrete.  I bought it in 5m x 2m sheets for my last garden.  Some became a mesh fence for the back of the potager which let me train blackberries and loganberries across it and some became a support for climbers like a rose and clematis round a bent path in the far end of the garden.

    Here I've used it to create sturdy trellis for roses and clematis to grow against stone walls and I've also used it to fence off a pen for the chooks.
     
    You want the 5 or 6mm stuff and a decent pair of bolt cutters to snip off pointy ends and cut shorter pieces.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    edited April 2021
    Someone asked about this to make a greenhouse with it they had seen on YouTube.
    The proper US cattle panels are 16ft x 50 inches and can be bent in an arch.
    The mesh sold in the UK and stong enough to make an arch, is usually at most 8ft by various widths.
    I can't see how you would fix it together or into the ground for a free standing arch  but would work attached to wooden frame or against a wall.





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