Trellis growing techniques are trendy now, which is reasonable. Most tasty tomatoes are cultivated with the help of trellis systems. These systems can keep vines from sprawling over the cultivation place and rotting in the soil, which means you will have a clear place.

With trellis systems, the vines are kept off the ground and have better airflow, so the crops are less exposed to rodents, bug damage and soilborne pathogens as well as more resistible to fungal diseases. At the same time, the trellises are flexible, wind resistant and budget friendly. If you try to grow healthier vine crops, trellis systems are highly recommended. 



Find the trellis you need
There are various options of trellising systems. You need to find the right trellis according to the category of your tomatoes, the cultivation place and the labor you are able to put into it.

Determinate Tomatoes
Determinate tomatoes grow like bush plants, also called bush tomatoes. Given this feature, these varieties of tomatoes are appropriate for container gardening and tomato cages. 

It should be noted that determinate tomatoes will be reduced by being pruned or suckered since pruning and suckering sap the plants' energy. For this reason, basket-weaving is suited to determinate tomatoes in open field. It makes the crops hard to prune due to support strings surround them while it is a quicker and labor-saving method to trellis tomatoes. 

Indeterminate Tomatoes
Indeterminate tomatoes grow like vine plants, also referred as vine tomatoes. Most heirloom tomato varieties are indeterminate. 

In order to support the weights of these tomatoes, trellises, stakes or cages are recommended. Moreover, it is a good idea to increase yields of indeterminate tomatoes by making them pruned or suckered. 

Indeterminate tomatoes can be occasionally basket-weaved. However, with the basket weaves, tomato sizes will be reduced or the crops will be more vulnerable to fungal diseases. In general, arid areas are able to adopt basket-weaving to indeterminate tomatoes.

Besides, for indeterminate tomatoes, here are more trellis methods to be talked about.



String Trellises
Literally, stringing up your tomatoes are not the only one choice for indeterminate tomato management but it does work well. With these trellises, your greenhouse and garden will get cleaner and your crops become healthier while the yield is promoted.



To attach string trellises to your tomatoes, you should install the trellises before planting your crops. 

What you need to do is building a frame such as the regular A-frame, and then setting strings straight up and down as well as some eye bolts which hold a length of garden twine. The strings of twine should be run up to the eye bolts at the top and each of them has one plant at the base. In this case, you can adopt tomato trellis clips to attach your tomato plants to the strings, which makes your tomato plants safer. 

  

When the tomatoes grow, you are able to move the clip to the other part of the string where you try to make the plant stable. In this way, the plants are secured without damage and you save labor instead of bending and twisting the plants all day long.