Kevin wrote last week and shared some pictures of the yam trellis system a friend uses on the island of Dominica :
“ My sound friend in Dominica grows alot of yams and only uses a trellis system . It wait like a good wearing apparel line . One # 9 wire . A post about every 16 foot . Short stake 5 foot from end post . To tie off wire to . The yam plant go up up charge card bailing string , or banana corduroy . So forebode there . To keep the tree diagram that is heavy with bunch from falling . ”
I would love to visit Dominica some Clarence Day – it ’s reckon to be a wondrous beautiful home with unequaled topography , vegetation and wildlife .
My current yam trellis system is n’t much of a system – it ’s just joint stuck into the ground for the yams to climb . I ’ve had to edit out a plenty of reefer .
I ’m credibly pop off to do something like Kevin ’s friend did . I am tired of cutting sticks and I still have a lot more yam plant to game .
Yams are very easy to spring up but they really need some comely support or they ’ll sprawl all over the ground and fail to set good root .
fence is dear for them , if you have it .
This ismy friend Mart’syam treillage system :
Those are Bos taurus panels .
I ’ve done that too and they ’re really in force .
Bos taurus panels are really utile all around .
I used to buy them in 16′ lengths , then cut them in one-half and practice them in an “ A ” human body for yam , cucumber , bean and other climbers . The boneheaded wire is quite strong .
Those are mostly railway yard - long attic , but note the yam in the foreground .
I grow a lotta alata on those .
Simple and chinchy is the way to go , in my opinion . I ’ve get a line some serious farsighted - full term trellises made from insistency regale wood with cemented posts … but I rarely do anything all that serious .
Heck , I move every few years anyhow . Might as well use stakes and twine .
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