Our tomatoes are off to a good start this spring. Planted early May, they’ve already grown a couple feet tall. We’re keeping them upright and trained on our trellis with vertical strings. We twist the new growth around the twine once a week as they grow. Later in the season, we’ll add a few more strings to help support heavy branches as they set fruit.
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Trellising looks great, I basically do my tomatoes this way. BUT I see alot of suckers on the tomatoe vines. If you don’t pinch/cut out the suckers you will have a jungle of vines/leaves & not as much fruit. Check out some of the many videos on YouTube about pinching out the suckers.
Your Garden looks so healthy, nice garlic too! 👨🏻🌾 🍅🧄
Brilliant idea
Instead of clips, I use chenille stems looped loosely once around the string and then around the plant. They’re less than a dollar at Walmart and I cut them in half, so each stem makes 2 loops.
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Nice video with ugly music!
What were the clips you used around the plants?
Don't use plastic clips. Just stick the line into the ground , under the root, when you plant and then just twist the plant into it while it grows. It works like a charm.
I plan to do this with my tomatoes this year. Question: would this method work with strawberries too?
where can I watch this clip without all of the words at the bottom of the screen covering up one of the critical points?
Wow….that’s a great idea. Thanks for sharing
what are the pipes
How do you have the trellis frame secured below the soil?
What is the string tied to at the bottom? It’s not the clip – the clip will slide up the stalk.
These must be determinants, if not you’d have vines going everywhere.
Do these end up shading the plants in the beds behind them? That’s what I can’t decide with my plants
What about windy days won't stay up long. Hope so but looks frail.
Looks. Like cable ties but they will slide up string. Jobs not right or finished.
I'm supecting. B. S.
My tomatoes hit 12’ tall last year using a stringing method like this
Yes I’ll do this to half my tomatoes this year ….Thanks…What a great garden you have!!
I saw a guy just buried the string under the plant when he planted seemed like a good Idea