Bamboo Arch Trellis

I also wrote and posted a guide for how to build this and posted it on my site here with my tutorials. In this blog post I’ll feature more photos, and also lay out some personal context and history.

Standing under the trellis looking at afternoon sun backlit dangling Armenian Cucumbers, watermelons of different varieties some hanging in macrame baskets, senescing cucumber plants, and luffa gourd in the distance among the bright green illuminated leaves
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Ozark Chinquapin Seeds

These seeds came in from the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation earlier in the year. One is instructed to keep them in a bag in the fridge in lightly moist loose soil media, taking it out and aerating / stirring every week as the roots emerge. Here the roots are barely peeking out. In spring after frost they can be planted with precautions including a tree tube and a mesh staked into the ground. They are very high in protein so wildlife tend to devour them.

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