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Trellising the Wheat

Ryan Kraeger

Last year we had issues with the wheat getting too tall and falling over, so this year we decided to get ahead of it and set up a trellis.

This is a very simple structure, just a set of T-posts every ten feet down both sides of the row. On the right hand side, (west) we had to be careful about placing these, and dig down for each one to make sure we weren’t driving the posts into the water line that runs down the west side of each row.

Then a single strand of line run from post to post (I used the line that we used to set up the rows, simply raised it about a foot off the ground.)

This should keep the wheat upright, for now. As it gets taller we will just run more lines as needed.

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Published by Ryan Kraeger

"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought." From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".

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