The Best Tomato Trellis

The best tomato trellis is easy to make. I really believe this is the best trellis for tomatoes. Using a cattle panel, cut it to 14 feet long, bend it into shape and anchor it in your bed to create a trellis strong enough to hold the heaviest tomato plants.

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[Begining]

This guy sounds like the Bob Ross of gardening. Love him!

[SKT]

Hey Gardener Scott! I've come up with the same concept for a trellis to bend over my shed so I can grow climbing roses. Worked out perfectly! Great minds think alike! Enjoyed your video. Acoustics were clear. Camera was steady. Directions were to the point with no wasted breath. You're a natural! Keep it going!

[GardenerScott]

For added safety, you can bend the panels into the height and shape you want before you cut the ends. That will reduce the chance of injury from the pointed tips .

[lispottable]

I love you gardener Scott. I just giggle every time you say “hi. I’m gardener Scott!” I am a fellow Colorado gardener and truly appreciate all your insight and teaching! Thank you!

[JSMCPN]

I am homesteading this year and adding this video to my new Homestead playlist. Thanks!

[SirSloop]

I used six of these last year in a couple different beds. They work fantastic. I'm skipping the strings and using 4' bamboo to hold them up when they are seedlings. I single stem the plants and poke the plant through the panel so it grows on the outside. This makes harvest even easier, allows for more air flow between the plants, easier access for pollinators, and more sun for the plants. I just bought three more and will be growing a million tomatoes this season!

[chantaltulliez]

So glad that you are showing the measurements in metric as well. Thank you as I am from Australia we only use the metric system. Thank you for sharing this user friendly video.

[Not_Sure_]

This is my 1st year growing tomatoes.
I've been using food grade buckets with tomato cages fromH.D.
That's a very smart idea.

[beebob]

Dad used to use the metal that was used in concrete work. Looks the same. He would make big circular cages for the tomatoes. What's nice about these cattle fences is the fact that the openings are so large. It's easy to get your hands inside for the harvest. This is my first time watching your video. I'm subscribing and seeing how you have your garden set up.

[terradeloach]

Omg. I just so got the Marty Stouffer vibe from Wild America. Pretty cool

[Cladman]

Great I agree, this year it is a cattle panel trellis, thanks,

[marykorte]

Am in Kenya east Africa, I love the way Scott explains how to take care of tomatoes. keep it up. I will always follow your way.

[marianreddy]

Thanks for sharing, you are the smartest gardener I have had the pleasure of following and your explanations are so well done that it motivates me into action. Love your videos!

[jerricroft]

My suggestion is I built a 8-foot tall chain link frame hung the cattle panel from the top and strung strings down to the base of the Tomato which I wound around the string until it got tall enough to reach the hanging panels. I pull all the suckers off and only let the main tomato Vine grow. Beautiful tomatoes I don't have to hunt for them and are very productive as a tomatoes are planted only 18in apart. Happy Garden glad to see somebody else use those panels

[benthere]

48" tall = 122 cM (much more than 40 cM). I have used cattle and hog panels for years and find them very useful. I also have dozens of pieces of #2 rebar that I use as stakes. A very useful for tying rebar and cattle panels together is the wire used by concrete workers to tie rebar together. They are just pieces of wire with a loop at each end. An inexpensive tool can twist those wires around rebar or the #8 wire in a panel very securely in just a matter of seconds. That same tool will also remove those wires just as quickly.

[marchellas]

Thank you for all the free videos. I'm a new at home gardener. Every video has helped

[knickia]

you can get very sharp precision bends using a pipe wrench to do the bends, i used this method to make square shapes (for a dog enclosure)

[BennettBorden]

I used your method on a big bed of tomatoes, 22x10 with 18’ cattle panels and it’s working great. Thanks for the advice!

[missmamtube]

Shalom! Thank you so much for sharing how to construct and build a tomato trellis. I will try this in garden this spring. Blessings!

[ourblessedhomestead]

We use cattle panels all over our garden. They make great trellises for anything that will climb. We bend ours in a hoop and create a tunnel for cucumbers and squash to climb on. All you do to harvest is walk through the tunnel and gather your produce. I have not used them for tomatoes but am going to this year. Thanks for all the great info my friend.