Victory Gardens are popular again thanks to the current pandemic. Our family has made a large garden and I’ve had fun making cute garden & plant signs for it. We’ve planted a variety of plants and I’ve had fun learning about them. Cucumbers evidently like to climb. I’ve been looking online at different ideas but couldn’t find anything I liked. Then last week, I was cleaning up a pile of toss items when I found an old frame I was getting rid of. Suddenly, inspiration struck! With a little creativity, I could have Picture Perfect Cucumbers!
A Frame With History
I’ve had this really cool, gold picture frame for several years. I picked it up for $2 at a neighbors’ garage sale. It came in handy a few years ago when our oldest son, Brock turned 21. He’s a HUGE Harry Potter fan so naturally, it was the only fitting party theme. We used the frame for our Wizard Portrait photo booth.
Check out more of our Harry Potter Party here and here
When we moved to this house a few months ago, my friend Donna tried to get me to part with it. I didn’t really feel like I was done with it so I hung on to it. But what to do with it? I couldn’t find a good place to store it here so I was going to toss it. I put it in a toss pile. Then, the other day, I was walking past the garden when inspiration struck! I had seen a wood framed cucumber trellis on Pintrest. I knew this frame would be the perfect vintage trellis for my garden.
How to Make a Frame Trellis
I collected my supplies, the frame, twine, and my staple gun, and got to work.
I place the frame on the ground with the back side up. Tying a knot in one end of the string, I began stapling the string to the back of the frame. My four fingers stretched side by side made a visually good measurement for string width.
I continued back and forth with the string, stapling it as I went. When I got to the end of the frame, I double stapled the end of the string. This left a little loop between the two staples as a tie handle. I tied the string and cut off the excess.
My Stand Up Guy
I showed my husband where I wanted the frame to stand up and he made legs for the frame. He attached them to each side on the back with a few wood screws.
The legs were positioned to stick down below the frame about a foot. I positioned the trellis where I wanted it to sit behind the cucumbers, and Mel helped me dig & hammer it down into the ground.
Picture Perfect
Now my beautiful cucumbers have a totally cute, vintage frame trellis to climb on! I can’t wait to see what they do with it!
