Do-It-Yourself Tomato Trellis

Hey there folks, Kathy and Brett here with Tomato Dirt and today we're talking about

do-it-yourself tomato trellises. So first of all, honey, can you explain to us why you trellised

tomatoes this year? Yeah sure, I mean I've never really done, actually I haven't done this before

that I recall, but I'm running out of cages, okay? I ended up with six extra plants that

someone requested near and dear to me and I had a few poles left so I thought well let's just try

this and then I went in the barn and I had a 2x4 pressure treated in there, cut it in half on the

table saw and just proceeded to sort of figure out how to get it to mount up here. I drilled a

hole, you can come down here, drilled a hole in the tube of what's a 2x2 now and if you come over

here and you can see I ran some, this is just fence wire that I had left over, ran it through

and torqued it down but surprisingly stout. Not going to fall off this year, maybe never if I left it

and did that on all three posts. It's certainly not a high-end nor a high time

consumption job but it's gonna stay up there. And then I had these plants laying on

the ground and I finally decided I have to do something. So how I did it is I put a

little metal pin down here, a little U-bracket, they're sort of laying everywhere

and just to give myself a base, tied a string, really I started at the top but either way

you tie a string at the top, I drilled a hole through here too, just tie a little knot

hopefully I can reuse this string next year but I've got a nice little roll of it, it's waterproof

by the way. Then it comes down and I secured it here and then I just sort of

wrap the plant around it. I can unwrap it so you can sort of see what's going on

Basically it started out like that and you just proceed to wrap it carefully

So that trains the tomato, it starts the tomato by training it. It comes up, it's going to come up this

string all summer and the other thing I like about this particular setup is it's pretty easy to deal

with and now I've got a, I'm 5'9", so this is this is close to six feet and for everybody that

goes to Walmart or Lowe's or someplace and looks at those cages and they say I'd buy it but I wish

it was taller. This is taller and when it gets above this and these will, I think I'll just

trim them at the top to keep them from just going everywhere but this is going to be good I think

What kind of string here did you use and what kind of string do you recommend? Do you have anything

you'd change about how you did this? Let me just go up and see what it is. This is my storage unit

I got it, I got it from Amazon. It's basically, it's basically nylon twine or nylon. It's a little

thinner than I wanted. I'm mildly concerned that it will be too thin and start to cut into the plant

but almost anything would work if you have but it's certainly strong enough and I got plenty

of it so I'm also going to use it I think maybe on the pole beans to run around to let them

not here but elsewhere. So I think the plants look good now. They're off the ground and it's a

we'll see how it does with the suckers and whatnot. I'm not sure about the suckers on this

sort of scenario but we'll find out. Anything you'd like to do differently or do better next

time or are you pretty satisfied so far? With this? Yes. I think it's going to be okay and

yeah I think it's gonna be fine. Great, happy trellising. Bye