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Thanks!

The slope is a big help, I think. It should be pretty simple to scale this down to fit whatever space you have. Remesh is easy to cut, or you can use any other mesh, fencing, etc. I'd stay away from anything with openings smaller than 4 inches or so as it's harder to clean the old vines off in the fall and cucumbers (or whatever) can get trapped on the upper side where they're harder to see or reach. Please post a photo of what you come up with (or write an instructable, of course).

Thanks. Cedar/redwood aren't easy to get and are pretty expensive, so I have purchased some of the non-toxic wood treatment mentioned in an earlier comment. I will build the rest of them out of pine that I will treat myself. It will be interesting to compare how they age alongside the PT one.

Cool idea and execution. I've daydreamed a lot about using float valves with my rain barrels and garden, but never got very far before getting sidetracked. This is getting me back on track.

Cool. Thanks.

My pleasure. Thanks for the compliment. I've got 4 varieties of cucumbers going this year so I won't be doing any beans, but building this has me already thinking about how many different climbing vegetables I could grow next year.

If they climb, it should work. I don't know if the fruit would hang down, though. Raspberries are pretty lightweight, so they might end up on the upper side where you can reach them easily. You could make it hinged somehow, maybe, so you could lower the top half for picking. Most of my raspberry experience has been with free-growing tangled canes, so I can't offer much insight. If you try it, or if you adapt the design, please come back and let us know what you did and how it worked.

Two more things I probably should have addressed!Regarding the effect of the treated wood on the hardware: none. The old staples holding the remesh on the old trellis could have been reused on the new one. In fact I just tossed them into the container of staples and may well use them again. They were a little darkened with age, but didn't seem compromised at all. There was no visible effect caused by the remesh's contact with the wood. The deck screws that held the old one together were rusty, but they weren't coated so I expected them to be worse than they were. They all unscrewed without any heads breaking off or stripping. As far as rusting goes, remesh comes pre-rusted from the store. The stuff I bought recently is covered in a powdery rust that rubs off on everything. I do plan to ...

Two more things I probably should have addressed!Regarding the effect of the treated wood on the hardware: none. The old staples holding the remesh on the old trellis could have been reused on the new one. In fact I just tossed them into the container of staples and may well use them again. They were a little darkened with age, but didn't seem compromised at all. There was no visible effect caused by the remesh's contact with the wood. The deck screws that held the old one together were rusty, but they weren't coated so I expected them to be worse than they were. They all unscrewed without any heads breaking off or stripping. As far as rusting goes, remesh comes pre-rusted from the store. The stuff I bought recently is covered in a powdery rust that rubs off on everything. I do plan to wire brush one and spray paint it, just to see how well that lasts (though it's going to be a pain). The one that was out there for 10 years is dark and rough--it's definitely oxidized--but it's not badly damaged. It's still plenty strong to do its job. You can see it in the photo of the cut-off sections.

Thanks. That's a good point, and I hadn't thought of that.

I just built a bunch of these almost identical to yours, also using cedar fence pickets. As far as I can recall, I never saw this instructable. I haven't filled mine yet (because it won't stop raining). A question: does the soil push out the boards on the long side, bowing them outward in the middle? The pickets are fairly flexible so I'm wondering if I should add some sort of center divider to keep everything square.(I hadn't added to top rails to the long one yet when I took this photo.)