Spirals for climbers?

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phuggins Fairmont, WV(Zone 6a) Jun 09, 2006

I'm looking to add some vertical elements to my perennial garden and don't have an awful lot of room to add additional plants. I was contemplating training vines or ?? up those metal plant spirals (I think they're usually used for tomatoes). Has anyone ever tried this? Or have any thoughts on it? Or just added anything vertical but not horizontal to their garden? :)

pam

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beaker_ch Columbia Heights, MN(Zone 4a) Jun 09, 2006

I don't think they can take a lot of weight. I know that they are used for Morning Glories and are pictured often on that thread.

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dmj1218 west Houston, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 09, 2006

Mine stood up to the weight of six foot tomato vines and all the deluges Houston could dish out this spring...

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sylvi74 Oak Grove, MN(Zone 4a) Jun 09, 2006

I have used these tomato towers from Jung Seed. They work great for annual vines and you could probably find something like them locally.

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beaker_ch Columbia Heights, MN(Zone 4a) Jun 09, 2006

Are those considered sprials? The sprials that I've seen have a center bamboo post with wire that circles around from top to bottom. The wire is attached in the hollow center of the bamboo at both ends.

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dmj1218 west Houston, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 10, 2006

Mine are just metal spirals--now this is a picture of a vitex; but to the left of it I was storing an extra unused spiral. I been trying to think of a way to use these in between tomato seasons down here...they are 6' tall in the ground. I wish they were 7'.

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beaker_ch Columbia Heights, MN(Zone 4a) Jun 10, 2006

Is there anything that a climber can latch onto? When you use this with tomatoes, do you have to tie the tomatoes to the sprial? I"ve never seen one in action, so I'm not quite sure how it functions. I know it would not support a mature clematis.

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dmj1218 west Houston, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 10, 2006

No you don't have to tie the tomato to it--simply wind the main trunk around it.

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