Tomato trellis

I started getting all complicated trying to work out how to set up a tomato trellis that wouldn't serve as a convenient ladder over our back wall, which faces onto a railway line and sees reasonable pedestrian traffic, including, sometimes, burglar/scavengers. Anything made out of timber such as brandring might be leant over to provide an easy exit path.


The solution was to provide a human unsupportive framework of light bamboo stakes cable tied to black plastic binding string suspended from the eaves above the rear wall of our outside room.

The top part of the structure - only a few cross stakes. It's easy enough to add more as required according to what the tomato vines want to do.

The bottom part - more cross stakes at a lower level. To keep things manageable, the bottom of the strings are tied to wheel weight ingots diverted from my reloading activities.

Tomatoes are slow off the mark, and I'm not sure what the problem is. Had the same issues last season.