D, good ideas!

Silvia

Thanks, Silvia! I was looking at fittings today for the PVC, and figured it would cost me all total (since the 10' sections were free) about $20 for the fittings and glue. The tree will be 8ft tall so I can have 2 feet in the ground to keep it stable. Not sure yet how many "limbs" or how long they will be. It won't be pretty, but it will hopefully work, and if the seminoles are too heavy for it, I'll use it for cucumbers in the spring.

I'll be curious to know how that works out, DG. I have a poly tomato cage that no plant will twine up. Squash and snow peas will reach out and grab it, then let go again. I don't think they like how it feels.

Very cool, can't wait to see how the project comes along. Take pics for a how to post!

So I've been told the project won't work because the vines won't cling to the PVC and the weight of the vines would break it unless I filled it with something like concrete, so I'm abandoning that plan. I'll think of something to do with the PVC. It was free, so nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

I just love doing frugal stuff like this.

What about a gutter garden?

What an ingenious (sp) reuse for what surely would have become just another piece of aluminum scrap!! I could only wish to be so clever. :/ It's a lovely vine, too, seems to really like growing in gravel, huh? Amazing. Wonder what would happen if you added a handfull of good soil, or worm compost.... Might take over the wall there!

writersblock, I'm planning a gutter garden along the east inside courtyard wall, but that's a long ways off, as I'll have to pay someone to put it up since it's a concrete block wall and I don't have the tools to do it. It's a two-man job, from what I hear. I want to grow my lettuce there, because it's shaded most of the day, and have something low growing under it, like greens or beets or other shade-loving plants.