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.

Things You'll Need

• Wooden fence posts
• Sledgehammer
• Eyebolts
• Wire or clothes line
• Soft twist ties

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Instructions

1. • 1

     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.

   • 2

     Screw eyebolts into the post every 1 foot.

   • 3

     Tie a length of clothesline or metal wire between the two posts, one every foot up the post to the top.

   • 4

     Attach the plants to the wire or clothes line as the plant grows using soft twist ties.