Building a Garden Arbor Inexpensively

www.bluegrassgardens.com/garden-arbor-plans-build.html

Look for cheap garden supplies such as trellises in the dollar stores, and garage sales and etc.

Here is an arbor that I screwed to a post. This one is an old baby expandable baby gate.

Here is another from old windows. I posted this here once and don't see it now though.

I grow gourds. The utility of the arbor is much more important to me than the looks, because gourds tend to cover it almost completely. I use something called "cattle panel." It's a piece of galvanized fencing used to make cattle chutes. It measure 16' x 50".
To assemble your arbor, choose an area about 5' wide by 4' long. set in two posts (at least 4' high on the 5' side of your space, you can use nice metal posts, wood posts, or rebar.

Sarsi, I use one of those to grow my squash and cukes on. Works good!