Chicken Wire Trellis For Tomatoes

This construction allows flexibility of width in the garden and flat winter storage.

Chicken wire trellis for tomatoes.

Chicken wire trellis is an inexpensive and simple vegetable trellis. Use the code 06 008554 for free shipping. Don t buy those flimsy wire cages marketed in big box stores or farm stores as tomato cages well not unless you re planning to use them as supports for something polite and well behaved such a pepper plant or maybe a leggy perennial. Chicken wire trellis if you have some old chicken wire lying around from other projects stapling a piece inside a simple wood frame can give you a quick and easy diy trellis to use for your tomato plants.

As you can see it is a simple system of 2x2x8 wooden posts spaced around 24 30 apart with a 2 4 across the top. As the tomatoes grow taller i simply tie the plants gently to the chicken wire or wire fencing using baling twine. Then we placed scraps of welded wire fencing or chicken wire across the posts. Once trellis used in your garden climbing vegetables will not take up so much place while producing more fruits than before.

To make a chicken wire a frame trellis create two frames with long legs out of untreated cedar. It helps you build a vertical gardening and ensures clean and fresh fruits in harvest season. Unruly chicken wire is contained when attached to the frame and the trellis can be used for years to come. Chicken wire is stapled onto the frame and hinges are used to attach two frames together at the top.

You may be tempted to do it but don t even think about it. This construction allows flexibility of width in the garden and flat winter storage. Check out my website.