Chicken Wire Trellis For Tomatoes

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Chicken wire trellis for tomatoes.

Updated in january 2016 just for you. Unruly chicken wire is contained when attached to the frame and the trellis can be used for years to come. 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. 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.

Chicken wire is stapled onto the frame and hinges are used to attach two frames together at the top. To make a chicken wire a frame trellis create two frames with long legs out of untreated cedar. Check out this example which uses chicken wire and an upcycled window frame. Once trellis used in your garden climbing vegetables will not take up so much place while producing more fruits than before.

Use the code 06 008554 for free shipping. Chicken wire trellis is an inexpensive and simple vegetable trellis. It helps you build a vertical gardening and ensures clean and fresh fruits in harvest season. Staple chicken wire onto the frame and use hinges to attach two frames together at the top.

This construction allows flexibility of width in the garden and flat winter storage. 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.