The idea here is to tie some twine through the springs of a pair of pegs, with some loose twine between them. Clamp these two pegs onto the trellis on each side of a growing vine where you need to support them.
These type of supports allow you to move them easily, or readjust them for better tensioning around the vines or other growing plants, without the problems of re/tying and untying of the supporting twine and knots which become hidden among the growing plants and their foliage.
Using coloured pegs also helps you find the ends of the twine supports a lot
easier as well.This type of vine support is particularly helpful for people who have problems with their fine motor skills, (eg Physical disabilities and arthritis)
EDIT: Here I am referring to ordinary clothes pegs, (Many of which here in Australia, are spring based to go over and around both clothes and clothes line), but any sort of clothes peg would work over wire trellis.
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I don't understand this sentence:
"The idea here is to tie some twine through the springs of a pair of pegs, with some loose twine between them."
What do springs have to do with pegs?
Thanks!
If you had said clothes peg, I might have figured it out.
In American English these are clothes pins!
In the US a peg is either something round that goes into a round hole, or square that goes into a square hole... This is what I was thinking of, and couldn't figure out why it would have a spring.
And yes, depending on the plant, this could be a really good way to make a plant support!
Sorry Pat, This posting was a little more rushed than normal cause my original idea for today was trumped elsewhere, and did not want to have it look like I was copying some other blogger.
PS.. And to us clothes pins are things used by dressmakers in putting material together before sewing up clothes
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