I’m not sure what got into me, but I went all playschool on my new tomato trellis.

We’ve given over three entire beds to tomatoes this year.  The two flanking beds have stakes that are simply painted 2×2’s.  I wanted to break up the monotony, so I screwed together some scrap lumber into a shape with some more angles for the center tomato bed.

It’s simply a two-by-four the length of the bed, with 2×2 legs screwed to each end and in the middle.  I took scrap pieces of trim or what-not and screwed horizontal braces around each side to support the tomatoes and to stabilize the whole thing.

I’m usually not much of a crazy color person, but after I primed it, I got a bunch of little 2 oz. bottles of yard and garden paint at the hobby store and went wild.

Now what I really want to see is how it looks dripping with juicy tomatoes!