Tomato Trellis - Boost Tomato Yields with Tomato Trellises
While tomato gardening is one of the favorite types of gardening for the home gardener, one of the requirements for many varieties of tomatoes is that they need support of some type like a tomato cage or tomato trellis. Keeping your tomatoes off the ground improves the quality of the tomatoes, and keeps the vines manageable.
The improved air flow will improve pollination, boosting yields as well. Usually this involves stakes or tomato cages, but another popular way of providing support is to use a tomato trellis.
A tomato trellis comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. One advantage to using them over tomato cages is that you can create a support system for several tomato plants at once. They are relatively straightforward in design, and you can make one of your own. All that’s needed is some type of structure, be it a frame or even a PVC pipe above the row of tomatoes. From that you can drop a length of twine that is used to tie the tomato vines to for support.
Alternatively, you can use something like a normal yard trellis, or even a section of fencing to act as the supporting trellis. The difficult part is usually getting one of these to stand up to the wind and the loading of the tomato plants as they get larger.
Commercial tomato trellises make the whole job a little easier. You can find some that are variation on the twine or rope support, or there are others that combine a tower with trellising to give you the best of both worlds.
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