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    • Build your own wooden trellis

    A trellis or a frame provides support for your plants as they grow. The trellis also has a great decorative effect in your garden or on the wall of your house. Whether you want to build a privacy screen for your property, a raised bed with trellis or a free-standing trellis for your climbing plants or vegetables, you can do it yourself: In our guidebook, you can find out everything about the right location, suitable wood type and further design ideas. In a practical construction manual, we explain all the steps, from cutting the battens to attaching the trellis.

    What you need:

    • Folding ruler
    • Wooden battens
    • Screws
    • Wood preservative, stain or varnish
    • Angle

    Step by step Instructions for building your own wooden trellis

    Step 1: Cutting and sanding beams

    Step 1: Cutting and sanding the battens

    You can have battens or wood cut to size at the DIY store. If this is not possible, the easiest way is to use a saw or jigsaw. For cutting, it is best to clamp the boards on your workbench with a clamps. After cutting, smooth the edges with sandpaper.

    Step 2: Painting wood with paint sprayer

    Step 2: Painting wood with paint sprayer

    When painting the trellis use a paint sprayer to apply non-toxic paint or stain for outdooruse. You do not need to thin the stain. However, you should dilute paint by up to 10 %.

    Adjust the amount of air and paint on the paint sprayer and test the spray on a piece of cardboard. You can spray particularly precisely with a thin spray strip. To adjust the paint sprayer, you should reduce the spray angle using the nozzle at the front. Spray the wooden battens from an even distance. . You can find more information in our instructions for painting wooden trellis.

    Step 3: Connecting wooden battens

    Step 3: Connecting wooden battens

    To assemble the trellis, connect the wooden battens to form a square trellis. Depending on the size, you should place a certain number of wooden battens in front of you in a vertical alignment with a distance of approx. 20 cm between them (A). Place the same number of wooden battens horizontally aligned above it (B). Our tip: Use an approx. 20 cm long remnant piece as a spacer (C).

    At the intersections, now fasten the horizontal battens to the cross braces with nails (D). This results in a grid structure. The outer edge ends with a batten in each case.

    Step 4: Screw the trellis to the wall

    Step 4: Screw the trellis to the wall

    Drill four holes on the trellis and at the same time drill the holes into the wall (see sketch). Insert the plastic wall plugs into the wall. Then connect the trellis with screws to the wall plugs in the wall.

    Make sure that there is enough air so that the plants can also grow up between the trellis and the wall.

    A
    B
    C
    D
    E

    The result

    Garden trellis W100 5D 300 LowRes

    Make your own trellis: Tips and hints

    Build trellis: Which wood is the best?

    You can build wooden trellis yourself using different types of wood. The softwoods pine and spruce are a good choice as they are readily available at DIY stores.

    Would you like to invest in a durable wooden trellis? Hardwood such as larch is more weather-resistant, but the price is higher. Harder wood is recommended especially for an unprotected location.

    Which setting is the right one?

    Ask yourself the following questions before you build trellis yourself:

    Do I want a free-standing trellis or do I want to mount it on the wall?
    The advantage of a free-standing trellis: They can also be used as a privacy screen for the balcony or demarcation in the garden like a fence.
    A trellis on the garage or house wall gives more life to a bare wall.

    Which location is suitable for which plant?

    Choose the location of your trellis according to the type of plant:

    trellis for roses

    Would you like to build a trellis  for roses yourself? Choose an open location with sufficient sunlight.

    trellis for horticulture

    If you want to build your own trellis for cucumbers, the place should be sheltered from the wind and sunny. Make sure the soil is nutritious and loose.

    Tomato trellis

    Do you want to build a tomato trellis yourself? For tomato plants it is important that you keep enough distance between the plants. Plant the tomatoes in a sunny place protected from the weather.

    Trellis for raspberries

    Or do you want to build a raspberry trellis? Then you should make sure that the place for the plants is protected from the wind.

    Trellis for peas

    And if you build your own trellis for peas, you should aim for fertile and fine soil when growing them so that the plants can thrive.

    Design and put up trellis

    How can I put up trellis?

    Trellis as a privacy screen

    Set up a free-standing trellis as a privacy screen:

    Make holes in the ground using a sledgehammer to drive three wooden stakes into the ground at even distances. Screw the trellis to the stakes at the lower end. Use 4 to 5 screws per stake.

    Trellis for raised bed

    Build your own trellis for a raised bed or planter box: Screw the trellis with angles at the bottom to your raised bed or to a square flower pot. You can then use it like a free-standing trellis.

    Build your own trellis for a raised bed or planter box:

    Screw the trellis with angles at the bottom to your raised bed or to a square flower pot. You can then use it like a free-standing trellis.

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