Best Tomato Trellises & Tomato Cages

Tomatoes are one of the top homegrown crops in backyard gardens. It’s easy to see why: there are hundreds of gorgeous and tasty varieties available to gardeners that you just can’t buy at the grocery store.

However, for good tomato harvests, you’ll need a tomato trellis. It’s better to trellis tomatoes for easier pruning, harvesting, airflow, and for healthier plants.

Homegrown tomatoes taste better because they can be harvested at their peak flavor. They also require you to put up a tomato trellis for support otherwise they’ll flop over. One season I was curious (& lazy) and didn’t trellis our tomatoes to see what the yield would be. Surprisingly we did get a decent harvest, however, crop damage was higher being so close to the ground.

Tomato Trellis & Tomato Cages

How you trellis your tomatoes will depend on the type you’re growing & how many plants you have.

Some of these ideas, while cute and DIY friendly, would only work (in my opinion) if you don’t have that many tomato plants. If you’re growing A LOT of tomatoes then you’ll likely need trellis options that are friendlier on the budget like using strong string to tie them upwards or fencing. I’ll share tomato trellis and cage ideas whether you have a few plants or many.

Tomato trellis as a woven row
Rodale Organic shows you a woven row trellis

DIY Tomato Trellis Ideas

Tomato Trellis Cages

Tomato Trellis Idea From a Piece of the Rainbow

Tomato Trellis Cages

Bamboo Tomato Trellis From ElMueble

DIY Bamboo Tomato Trellis

Tomatoes Trellis Idea from Homestead Honey

DIY tomato tower trellis instructions

Tomato Trellis Archway from Learning & Yearning

DIY Bamboo Tomato Trellis For Raised Garden Bed

Tomato Trellis From boutique

DIY A Frame Tomato Trellis

The vegetable gardener has DIY plans for building a Frame Tomato Trellis

DIY Tomato Tower Cage

Homemade food junkie has this great tomato trellis using cattle panel fencing.

Tomato trellis

Do you have a preferred way to trellis tomatoes?

4 thoughts on “Best Tomato Trellises & Tomato Cages”

  1. hello,
    i have a 1 acre determinate tomato farm. what is the best trellis for this large number of tomatoes.

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