recycle old wooden blinds

[old tree man]

My wife Jane has a great eye for a bargin so when she told me she had sourced some new wooden blinds in a sale we had to go and look, we have 2 large windows and 2 small windows which needed fitting , all of them would normally cost a fortune but in the sale we paid £40 for the lot,
best of all though the old ones we took apart we weaved them together and made trellis's for our beans and peas, the metal bit at the top was sunk into new troughs to act as a reservoir to stop them drying out to quickly in summer, and all the twine which held the blinds together is great for tying in any climbers or ramblers that you may have.
so all in all a total recycle and also saving us about £140 in total
not a bad days work

[Thurston Garden]

Excellent! A bargain AND a good reuse of old stuff.

[Esther.R]

Good idea - might try that one, we have an old blind like that sitting in the shed here

[ocelot42]

I recently purchased a used wooden window blind thinking that I would use the individual slats for row markers in my garden... but once I took it apart I experimented with weaving the slats together and PRESTO... vegetable trellises. It's very early in my growing season so I haven't tried mine outside yet. Each trellis required 11 slats and I ended up with 8 trellises. I'm planning to fasten together pairs into an A-Frame shape, fasten them securely to the ground with garden stakes and use them for my row of beans. How stable do yours seem to be? How will you keep them from blowing away in the wind?

Thanks!