Making a shade trellis
Putting a trellis in front of
these windows should give us some Summer shade.
I overlapped 2 eight foot
long furring strips to equal the 12 foot span.
Now we just have to wait for
the grapes
to grow and twist their way to the top.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Good Day, I recently was searching this very topic and came across one I want to try next spring to shade my plant room in the summer, but have the winter sun come in. I found it on youtube. The lady doing the very same thing use passion flower vine. They grow very fast and the whole plant is useable. Her problem area was a porch, which got too hot in the summer, yet she wanted the sun in winter. In the fall she cut down the old vines, leaving the roots for next year. She used wired running vertical for support. We have tons of passion flower and I am looking forward to getting my going next spring. Hope yours works out well too. vivian