How to Make an Effective Tomato Trellis
Some tomato hybrid fruits are too large for the plant stalk to hold. A wire cage or trellis supports the plant as it grows, preventing the tomato plant from falling over. Building a trellis is cheap and provides more benefits than simply supporting the plant’s weight. A trellis prevents disease by aiding in air circulation, helps pollination by making the plant more accessible to beneficial insects and makes harvesting easy. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Wooden fence posts
- Sledgehammer
- Eyebolts
- Wire or clothes line
- Soft twist ties
Instructions
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Pound one fence post every 6 feet along your tomato plant row. Driving the post at least 18 inches in to the soil with a sledgehammer prevents the posts from wobbling.
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Screw eyebolts into the post every 1 foot.
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Tie a length of clothesline or metal wire between the two posts, one every foot up the post to the top.
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Attach the plants to the wire or clothes line as the plant grows using soft twist ties.
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