A garden trellis is simple to build. AsktheBuilder.com host Tim Carter shares one simple method to build a trellis for your garden. In just a few minutes you'll have a hand-made trellis to use as you please.

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[Music Playing] Male: Hey Jeff, now wake up. Male: What? Male: I need your help. Male: What? Male: I need you to build something for my signa for tomorrow night. Male: Leave me alone man. Male: Jeff, I need your help. Male: Look. Male: Yes? Male: I want to built this trellis. I need it about 40 inches high. I need slants about 36 inches wide and so that it folds like this and the plants would grow up in the middle. Can you build this for me? Male: Oh, easy and I got the stuff here in the garage and I can do that. Male: Come on, let us go get it. Male: All right lets go. Oh that Ron Wilson awaking me up to do one of his projects. I do not why he could not do it. Okay, let us see what we need. We need some stakes and we need some lattice, okay. That is too thin, oh here we go. These tomato stakes will work okay now. I would like to use this lattice and we will but I would rather use redwood. Now I will tell you why, redwood is a much better wood to use for outside purposes. But here is how we are going to getting started. First thing we need to do is cut down these tomato stakes. We are going to cut them down so they are about three feet long and we need four of them. And of course they have got points on them that are already well made from the factory that will help them stick in the ground. Now the lattice strips need to be cut down to 36 inch wide We need six of them total to make the stand. All you do then is go ahead and screw the lattice strips to the top of the tomato stakes. Now we have to hinge it to make the letter X. That is simple take a quarter inch drill bit. Go ahead and use a nut and a bolt to bolt the two legs together to hold it so that so it stays in the X position. We are going to have to use some small cup hooks and some chain. You will need four cup hooks and you will need about eight feet of chain to make this thing work. Male: Hey dude, check this out man. Male: Hey that is perfect. Thanks a lot. I will go use it right now. Male: All right dude. Male: By the way, there is a squirrel in your pocket.. Male: Oh okay. If you want to discover more home improvement tips go to ask thebuilder.com.