Our tomato plants are off to a fantastic start this year!  They're doing so great that they need a lot of additional support!

We started the season off by using some tomato cages we already had & using stakes for the rest.  We quickly outgrew that situation so we needed to do something more.  Even the tomato cages weren't strong enough to contain these tomatoes!

I saw this homemade tomato trellis on Pinterest & I knew I wanted to do something similar.

My husband & I used posts from Tractor Supply.  For the trellis wire, we used 17 gauge electric fence wire.  We ended up using almost the entire roll of wire for the trellis!  We'll probably end up adding more wire to the top of the posts as the plants grow.

My husband spent a Saturday morning stringing the trellis together.  We were originally just going to put posts on each end of the tomato rows, but we still needed more support so we added even more posts in the middle.

To create the trellis, my husband wrapped the wire around to create an area between the plants so they can sit on the wire & be supported.  He did this in a few areas so the tomato plants will have support as they grow taller.  He even wrapped the plants that had tomato cages around them because they needed the extra support!

We're now in the process of weaving the tomatoes around the trellis.  It's been super hot here so working in the garden has been at a minimum lately.  We're still sneaking some time in the early morning & at night to get in the garden to tend.  Building the trellis was the main thing we wanted to get done so now it's a little weaving here & there.

We honestly didn't expect our tomatoes to grow this out of control!  In our 4 seasons of gardening, these are the biggest tomato plants we've ever had!  We already have little tomatoes starting!

It would have been a lot easier to build the trellis while the tomatoes were still small, but we didn't expect such a great crop!  Now we're just trying to support our plants the best we can because it looks like there's going to be a lot of tomatoes this year!