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Garden Master
If you go back to my first post on this thread, you will find a link to "Rick's tomato trellis." I thought that his technique was a pretty good one but there is a lot of weight on those cattle panels and the trellis sags late in the season between the metal posts holding it.
The answer for a better way to support a horizontal panel might be to use a small cage for each tomato plant. Then, lay a cattle panel horizontally across all those cages. The tomato vines will grow up inside the cage and then spread out on top the panel.
I suppose that the entire thing could tip over and fruit may be hard to see hanging below the panel, but ... it was an idea.
Steve
The answer for a better way to support a horizontal panel might be to use a small cage for each tomato plant. Then, lay a cattle panel horizontally across all those cages. The tomato vines will grow up inside the cage and then spread out on top the panel.
I suppose that the entire thing could tip over and fruit may be hard to see hanging below the panel, but ... it was an idea.
Steve