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 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, James, & 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 add more wire to the top of the posts as the plants grow.

James spent a Saturday morning stringing the trellis together.  We were initially 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, James wrapped the wire around to create an area between the plants so they could sit on the wire & be supported.  He did this in a few p so the tomato plants l have support as they grow taller.  He even wrapped the plants with tomato cages around them