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You can do this with hazel or other coppiced poles, or just bog standard canes.
What you do:
Put 3 or more poles or canes vertically into the ground, nice and deep so that they stand up without help. They must be in a line, although you can do more lines to make squares or other shapes.
Then, weave other poles or canes horizintally through the 3 canes, so that you have 3 or more going horizontally to the height that you need.
You can do this to grow tomatoes up [weave them through as they go], beans, peas, smaller squashes, cukes, achocha. You can make smaller ones into a cube - using 8 verticals and weaving 3 horizontals on each side and put that around courgettes or bush toms to keep the leaves and fruits off the ground. Or around peas and let them grow up the centre.
The weaving adds tension and keeps the frame in a state of kinetic energy and thus keeps everything in place; if something is moving then you may need to adjust the spacings or even pop another horizontal in to add more tension.
As well as growing things up them; you can use them to pretend to grow peas up, but actually you place them where people who you don't want walking on your plot tend to walk, and sow some peas under, and people tend to shy away as they look precarious.
Here are pics of my latest 2; one in the poly for toms and stuff; and 2 in the Gert bed at the lottie for peas to cling on to. With the 2 Gert ones, i've used 4 verticals and 2 horizontals...and it still works.
What you do:
Put 3 or more poles or canes vertically into the ground, nice and deep so that they stand up without help. They must be in a line, although you can do more lines to make squares or other shapes.
Then, weave other poles or canes horizintally through the 3 canes, so that you have 3 or more going horizontally to the height that you need.
You can do this to grow tomatoes up [weave them through as they go], beans, peas, smaller squashes, cukes, achocha. You can make smaller ones into a cube - using 8 verticals and weaving 3 horizontals on each side and put that around courgettes or bush toms to keep the leaves and fruits off the ground. Or around peas and let them grow up the centre.
The weaving adds tension and keeps the frame in a state of kinetic energy and thus keeps everything in place; if something is moving then you may need to adjust the spacings or even pop another horizontal in to add more tension.
As well as growing things up them; you can use them to pretend to grow peas up, but actually you place them where people who you don't want walking on your plot tend to walk, and sow some peas under, and people tend to shy away as they look precarious.
Here are pics of my latest 2; one in the poly for toms and stuff; and 2 in the Gert bed at the lottie for peas to cling on to. With the 2 Gert ones, i've used 4 verticals and 2 horizontals...and it still works.
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