Tomato Cage Or Trellis

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.

Tomato cage or trellis.

There are hundreds of gorgeous and tasty varieties available to gardeners that you just can t buy at the grocery store. This post gives you tomato trellis and cage ideas but it also gives you the how to and the pros and cons of each. You can easily weave the tomato plants through the grid of the trellis as they grow. The trellis requires very little space and tomatoes can be planted close together.

It s easy to see why. Their tall and relatively flexible stems cannot stand upright on their own especially once they re heavy and laden with fruit. 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. Tomato plants inevitably need support.

Without staking and the support from a tomato cage or trellis tomato plants will succumb to their own lankiness and weight. My tomatoes are planted about 1 1 2 feet apart alternating on each side of our trellis in a zig zag formation see photo. It begins by covering cages like the wire mesh and concrete wire mesh cages. Then it moves on to cover other methods like the post and twine method.

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. 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.