Tomato Cage Or Trellis

This post gives you tomato trellis and cage ideas but it also gives you the how to and the pros and cons of each.

Tomato cage or trellis.

Then it moves on to cover other methods like the post and twine method. It s easy to see why. Well too tall for regular tomato cages i like trellises better than cages but if you only have a few tomato plants cages get the job done. There are hundreds of gorgeous and tasty varieties available to gardeners that you just can t buy at the grocery store.

The trellis requires very little space and tomatoes can be planted close together. If you have some of the old conical cages floating around and are interested in experimenting with them you can join two of them together to make a strange looking but much taller cage. My tomatoes are planted about 1 1 2 feet apart alternating on each side of our trellis in a zig zag formation see photo. Tomatoes are one of the top homegrown crops in backyard gardens.

Tomato plants inevitably need support. You can also use the vinespine trellis panels to make a tomato plant cage for indeterminate varieties of tomatoes that are too tall for cages. Homegrown tomatoes taste better because they can be harvested at the peak flavor. It begins by covering cages like the wire mesh and concrete wire mesh cages.

In this newspaper article there s a number of cages discussed but the one i ve zeroed in on is the tomato cage stack proposed by a landscape architect. This post is full of ideas for tomato trellis tomato cages.