Umbrella-shaped trellises can be used to decorate the garden or lawn and to create unique, upright sprays of flowers. Use umbrella trellises to grow climbing flowers such as climbing roses, clematis, morning glory, moonflower or hyacinth bean. Fruits and vegetables such as peas and strawberries can also be trained to climb small umbrella trellises. There are flat as well as dimensional umbrella trellises available. Umbrella trellises can be used to section off areas of your garden, create shade and can even be doubled up to create archways. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Place your umbrella trellis in a location of your garden that receives adequate light. Under a tree or near a shady side of the house may not be optimum unless the particular plant is adapted to shady, cool conditions. Make sure your trellises, when full of foliage, will not block too much light from adjacent plants. Umbrella trellises are nice because they are skinny in the middle so they let more light through than a rectangular trellis.
2. Make sure the soil where the trellis will be used is well drained, healthy and fertilized. Use nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium fertilizer and starter fertilizer for transplants as recommended for what you are growing.
3. Push the legs of the trellis all the way into the ground.
4. Plant your seeds or transplants inside and/or just around the outside of the legs of the trellis.
5. Tie the stems of your plant to the legs with plant ties or strips of nylon as soon as they are tall enough. Tie the stems loosely to maintain circulation in the stem. As the plants continue to grow, wind the vines around the trellis bars and keep adjusting and adding ties as needed.
6. Allow new climbing plants like roses to grow unpruned for three years. Prune the shoots of climbing roses as soon as the flowers are gone. Keep dead or overcrowded branches at the base of the plant pruned.
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