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Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat
- From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 07:53:32 -0600
I've also wondered why the plants don't get burned,
but they don't.
My semi erect blackberries are on a metal trellis
made out of shiny galvanized pipe (the kind used for chain link) and
wire. The top lateral support is also made out of a continuous
galvanized pipe. On hot sunny summer days, it gets so hot, I think
it might blister your skin if you touched it long enough. I
tie the canes to the top pipe just as I do to the wires with no detrimental
effect to the canes.
I've also grown a grapevine on the top of a chain
link fence. Mind you, it's not the best trellis in the world, but I saw no
adverse effects from training the grapes to the top pipe.
Mark
KS
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[NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat,
Patsy King, 12/06/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat,
Mark Angermayer, 12/07/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat, Ginda Fisher, 12/07/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat,
Road's End Farm, 12/07/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plantsin the searing summer heat, Mark Angermayer, 12/07/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat, Douglas Woodard, 12/07/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Q about metal trellises and why they don't burn plants in the searing summer heat,
Mark Angermayer, 12/07/2010
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