The delicate petals and fragrance of sweet peas make them a spring favorite and a colorful addition to any deck. With minimal tools, and inspiration taken from a spider web, this trellis will display them at their best. 

Old wooden boxes are a great thrift store find and lend themselves well to trellis planters. With a few garden stakes, eye hooks and some waxed twine you can spin a web style trellis to support just about any annual vine.

Materials:

Large wooden box

Three 5-foot long cedar garden stakes 

Six 1 1/4–inch screws

Copper brads

Waxed twine

20 small eye hooks 

Tools:

Pencil

Japanese pull handsaw

Clamps

Drill or screw gun 

Scissors

Awl

Chisel

Directions:

1. Using a Japanese pull saw, cut one garden stake 6 inches longer than the length of wooden box and trim the cut end into a point to match opposite end of stake.  This will be the horizontal stake.

2. Clamp the 2 uncut stakes vertically inside the back corners of the box with pointed ends facing up and attach using three screws for each stake. 

3. Lay horizontal stake on edge of wooden box so it rests against the two vertical stakes.  Mark width of vertical stakes on horizontal stake.

4. Using a Japanese pull saw and chisel, create half lap joints at both ends of horizontal stake and at pointed ends of vertical stakes so stakes can join together seamlessly.  

5. Using copper brads, attach vertical stakes to horizontal stake so pointed ends of the three stakes cross at equal lengths.

6. Screw 5 eyehooks to each inner edge of stakes and the edge of wooden box at irregular intervals. Cut 10 lengths of waxed twine several inches longer than total height of trellis. Tie bundle of twine in a knot about 2/3 up its length, then tie each end of twine to an eyehook so it has very little slack.  When all ends are attached, begin the spider web spiral.

7. Cut a long length of waxed twine. Knot twine end close to center knot. Tightly loop twine around each twine spoke knotting it intermittently, working the web design outward.