the tomato trellis

Last year, our tomato plants took over our entire garden.  We used the cheap wire cages, and they were no match for our monstrous tomato plants.

Here's a pic of last year's tomatoes.  

Can you find the wire cages?  Neither could we. 

This year, we are going to tame the tomatoes with our homemade trellis.  I designed it with the help of The Garden Guy's book, Extreme Gardening, and Tom built it for me.  Indeterminate tomatoes (the vine kind that continuously produce fruit) can grow as tall as you want them to.  The plants can become very heavy, too, but this trellis should fare well.  

Tom built the trellis by first putting in 4x4x7 posts at each corner of one of our garden boxes, and then we attached a 2x4 along the top.  We hung concrete reinforcement wire along the frame, and we'll weave the tomatoes in the wire as they grow.