This season I’ll show you every Trellis method I can think of starting off with my favorite early season system the single leader string trellis!
The single leader string tomato trellis is definitely the cheapest when it comes to materials, give that you have something to attach to. I like to do this for my earliest tomatoes due to the high air flow and low disease pressure. The single leader tends to produce earlier as well as the plant doesn’t have to support all the suckers! Full pros and cons down below:
Advantages:
Cheap, pennies in string/twine
Higher Airflow = Less Disease
No Suckers = Earlier + Larger Tomatoes
Denser planting for more variety
Disadvantages:
Lower Overall Harvest w/o Suckers
High Maintenance Due To Pruning
If Not Maintained It Becomes Floppy FAST
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.02 cents in twine and $30 in trellising.
Exactly what i needed, thank you.
the cheapest, for the price of 20 ft of pvc
Are those Maker Pipe connectors on (what size?) Emt for the frame?
This is my first year having a garden outside of balcony pots, I grew some tomatoes from seed but they are still a bit small and leggy, I cant tell the difference between leaf and fruit stems at this time, any tips/suggestions? Or just take a chance? No flowers yet
Costs .02 cent?? What about the support built around the garden bed?? Not the cheapest option at all when that is factored in.
Good idea 👍
What's the cost of the pipe rack you're using?
Depending on the species though them branches will snapski, that’s Russian for snap.
Pretty cool!
I tried this 2 years ago but we just get too strong winds here. I like the idea of the string method, it just didn't work for me. The tomatoes unwound in the wind and branches snapped. A couple plants completely split open just because of the wind moving them back and forth so forcefully. I used cattle panels last year and though they were super expensive here in Canada, I don't think a single branch snapped for all my 100+ plants!
That said, I'd totally use this in a greenhouse if I had one!
I love burying the twine under the plant! Easy and smart!
"Just use a pre-built frame." Great advice homie.
Love this idea! I may have to try it, I'm already thinking about building a frame like yours to put netting around my planter in hopes of keeping the squirrels and birds from taking a bite of my tomatoes and leaving them to rot 😮💨
Stick a copper rod in there & be amazed… Electroculture 💞
I as there a reason you don't plant your tomatoes deeper? I thought they grew roots from the hairs on the stems, so it was helpful to plant them deeper or sideways.
Try burying them side ways if smaller
way roooo muxh work
Excellent information Thank you!
Superb!!!! Thank you!!!!
The most difficult fruit to grow in warm climates unless you use pesticides against aphids and spider mites.
Can you post a video of the frame?
You do great stuff man, thanks son much
CHALLENGING TO KEEP UP WITH THE SPEED OF TALKING
What kind of twine and what is that frame ?
Started using the string/twine method a few years ago. I've never used any other method since. Also perfect for cucumbers, squash, courgette (zucchini), aubergine (egg plant) & more.
No its not. Challenge accepted.
Chit
Don’t remove suckers, they provide food and energy for the plant. So much that gardeners do is based on hogwash. Like when translating people break up the roots. It damages them and there is no reason for it.
this was everything i needed in my life 🥲🙌🏿
Yeah it's cheapest, once you take the only part of it that costs real money and just totally disregard it.
Awesome. Thanks!
But how much is the metal cost?
Oh my God he's handsome and genius, what's-his-nuts really got lucky with you
yea the part of "somewhere to attach the twine" is the vein of my existence right now when i plant all my tomatoes in pots and the tomato cages were too weak for the size of my plants. This is when i realized that tomatoes act like weeds if you let them lol.
Genius!
2 cents for twine. $50 for supporting structure. I swear some of these garden gurus forget not everyone has all these things just laying around. And no, not everyone lives next to a forest to easily walk out and pick some free wood.
I grow like this using a single 6 ft bamboo pole attatching the string at the top . Each pole gets it's own tomato.
you forgot a source of calcium to prevent blossom end rot
What is Rock Dust?
Great job! I have subscribed 🎉
Trim and replant suckers. And you will get FREE plants. And YES they produce. I do this every year