I decided to add another three feet of trellis for our tomatoes in Garden Box A today. Bamboo stakes I had leftover from other projects were used along with plastic zip ties and fencing from the hardware store. I secured the stakes to the existing re bar using zip ties and weaved the fencing on top of the bamboo. Since the fencing was a bit uneven, I attached extra ties to the stakes halfway up and at the top for a more solid structure. These tomatoes (Celebrity, Roma, Matt’s Wild Cherry) are already taller than I am…this new extension takes the trellis to about 10 feet high.
Extended trellis on Garden Box A for tomatoes
Planted and Enchanted 
May 27, 2009 at 5:29 am
Hey Chad, Great blog! I’m curious– are you tying your toms to the trellis as it grows? It looks one-sided: how are the plants staying up against it, especially when they get heavy with fruit.
I have about 40 plants and don’t want to buy premade cages ($$$), and Jeff & I were trying to figure out how best to prop them up. Last year my whole crop got blight from falling onto the soil due to bad staking by yours truly 🙂 I also like to blame the really wet, cold June we had, but it is mostly that I was lazy.
May 27, 2009 at 9:40 am
Hello Barbara.
Yes, I’m using all purpose garden tie stuff to train the tomatoes up that trellis. As the tomatoes grow, I gently weave the stems through the horse-fencing… It seems to be working pretty well. This is my first year attempting this sort of thing.
Thanks for the kind words.
-chad