How do you tie up your garden tomato plants?
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DuaeGuttae
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You should visit us over in the garden thread. There are lots of different ways and photos over there.
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I personally use cattle and utility panels. Some are straight, some are arched. I weave the tomato branches through as they grow and pretty much let them go wild when they reach the top. I don’t have great photos right now, and it’s close to one hundred degrees in my garden at the moment, so I’ll just post what I have.
The first couple of photos are tomatoes growing in raised beds with arched cattle panels between them. I have bush beans in the front of the bed since they don’t need trellising.
This long bed has peppers in the front and a utility panel running straight along the back. [The utility panels had been left behind on our property when we moved in as had some cattle panels and gates. We thought they were great garden resources.]
The next two pictures aren’t tomatoes but give a better view of arched cattle panel trellises. My Seminole Pumpkin vine has crawled over into a second bed from the first.
I also have some trellises that I built many years ago when I only had tiny garden boxes in suburbia. The frames were electrical conduit, and I used to use nylon trellis netting. When we moved to Texas, we replaced it with some woven wire fencing that we were given. I can move those trellises around by pounding rebar into place and sliding the conduit over it.
I dug up a photo from the end of the season a couple of years ago when I had some tomatoes still on that trellis.
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I personally use cattle and utility panels. Some are straight, some are arched. I weave the tomato branches through as they grow and pretty much let them go wild when they reach the top. I don’t have great photos right now, and it’s close to one hundred degrees in my garden at the moment, so I’ll just post what I have.
The first couple of photos are tomatoes growing in raised beds with arched cattle panels between them. I have bush beans in the front of the bed since they don’t need trellising.
This long bed has peppers in the front and a utility panel running straight along the back. [The utility panels had been left behind on our property when we moved in as had some cattle panels and gates. We thought they were great garden resources.]
The next two pictures aren’t tomatoes but give a better view of arched cattle panel trellises. My Seminole Pumpkin vine has crawled over into a second bed from the first.
I also have some trellises that I built many years ago when I only had tiny garden boxes in suburbia. The frames were electrical conduit, and I used to use nylon trellis netting. When we moved to Texas, we replaced it with some woven wire fencing that we were given. I can move those trellises around by pounding rebar into place and sliding the conduit over it.
I dug up a photo from the end of the season a couple of years ago when I had some tomatoes still on that trellis.
Dan Freeman
Minister of Fire
For indeterminants I used four sided cedar cages for years and allowed some low suckers to develop. Disinfecting the cages each year was a pain and more important with the blight that regularly shows up now. Last year I used the pictured trellis on some plants with good success. They allow good air flow. The wire fencing is fastened to a 2x2 stake. Plants are run through and tied on with bailing twine. This year we aren’t making and freezing sauce so doing just a few plants. Had some wire cages that should be clear of blight and will add stakes to hold the mfg cages up and get more height for the plants. Will keep them to a main stem and allow one sucker. Plan to alternate and to use the trellises next year.
Dan Freeman
Minister of Fire
Check out these James Prigioni videos on The Gardening Channel on YouTube. BTW...his channel is an excellent channel for anyone with a backyard garden, although he has a food forest, his info is excellent.
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