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For beginner or expert gardeners, tomatoes are astaple crop.
Trellising your tomatoes gives stems strong support to grow taller and produce more fruit.
It also keeps leaves from reaching the ground, where they can be susceptible to diseases or pests.
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If done right, trellises provide a dynamic look to your garden and ease harvesting throughout the season.
Let these ingenious gardeners and their practical tomato trellises inspire you to startgrowing your best tomatoesyet this summer.
This gardener opted to build simple ladder-style structures to accompany tomato plantsand even added bold colors for vibrancy.
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They created a rectangular trellis around their tomato patch, with a larger, structured grid of wireframe overhead.
Strings can be dropped and clipped to tomato plants, leading them upwards.
you’re free to pick up a pack of 250 clips on Amazon for a massive tomato patch.
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Their support beams are long, gathered sticks, lashed together in a similar A-frame.
Extra support for young plants comes within plastic cups placed over seedlings.
If you’re growing determinate varieties, cages work just fine.
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Indeterminate tomatoes can grow 10-12 feet tall with the proper climate, care, and trellis.
However, a trellis of 5-8 feet works well and still lets your tomatoes grow tall and strong.
Yes, a trellis provides crucial support to tall, long-growing varieties.
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They also help keep leaves off the ground, preventing disease and providing crucial airflow throughout your plant.
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