My Favorite Trellis 🍅

This is our T post trellis that we set up for our cucumbers and tomatoes. It worked great and we are literally overflowing with tomatoes right now. 🍅

Everything was planted 1 foot apart with 3 foot rows. This was tight but seemed to work great!

Easy to make too- Position your T posts, Run your galvanized wire across the top like a clothes line, then use twine to trellis your vine up to your wire 👍

Is the twine staked at the bottom?

Did those tomatoes just crawl up the twine by themselves or did they need lots of guidance?


Thanks,
Rufus

Rufus Laggren wrote:Is the twine staked at the bottom?

Did those tomatoes just crawl up the twine by themselves or did they need lots of guidance?


Thanks,
Rufus

I just tied the twine around the main stem and use the leaves and branches to catch it and create friction. Works pretty well for how easy it is.
They do need guidance and a little pruning to get going. Its simple to wrap the twine around the stalk really quick every week. We prune near the bottom and let the top branches just flop out. It gets messy but its just for fun and we are overrun with tomatoes right now. The bad thing about that cheap twine is that is doesnt last long and sometimes breaks or rots too early.
Thanks for checking it out
Patrick

Thanks for  the idea, Patrick.

That sounds real workable. Might help my sister considerably. <g>


Cheers,
Rufus

Rufus Laggren wrote:Thanks for  the idea, Patrick.

That sounds real workable. Might help my sister considerably. <g>


Cheers,
Rufus

No problem! Let me know if you have any questions about it and I will try to help out.

Patrick Humphrey wrote:This is our T post trellis that we set up for our cucumbers and tomatoes. It worked great and we are literally overflowing with tomatoes right now. 🍅

Everything was planted 1 foot apart with 3 foot rows. This was tight but seemed to work great!

Easy to make too- Position your T posts, Run your galvanized wire across the top like a clothes line, then use twine to trellis your vine up to your wire 👍

How is the galvanized wire held on to T-posts? Did you fasten it like barbed wire w/ T-post wire clips ?