Chicken Wire Trellis For Tomatoes

To make a chicken wire a frame trellis create two frames with long legs out of untreated cedar.

Chicken wire trellis for tomatoes.

Use the code 06 008554 for free shipping. Check out my website. It helps you build a vertical gardening and ensures clean and fresh fruits in harvest season. This construction allows flexibility of width in the garden and flat winter storage.

Chicken wire trellis is an inexpensive and simple vegetable trellis. Then we placed scraps of welded wire fencing or chicken wire across the posts. As the tomatoes grow taller i simply tie the plants gently to the chicken wire or wire fencing using baling twine. Check out this example which uses chicken wire and an upcycled window frame.

Unruly chicken wire is contained when attached to the frame and the trellis can be used for years to come. This construction allows flexibility of width in the garden and flat winter storage. 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. Once trellis used in your garden climbing vegetables will not take up so much place while producing more fruits than before.

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. Updated in january 2016 just for you. Staple chicken wire onto the frame and use hinges to attach two frames together at the top.