Comments on: New Tomato Trellising and Training System (Video)

By: lucky bamboo girl

lucky bamboo girl — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:26:27 +0000

Thank you for another insighful post!

By: Carolyn Blakeney

Carolyn Blakeney — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:09:21 +0000

Thanks for the video Kenny, I think I am going to try a trellis system next year. I usually put el cheapo 7′ bamboo poles in the ground to support my plants, so of course the most you get to use is 6′ after you’ve sunk them in, and for some time now I’ve been trying to creatively fold the vines up and down the poles to keep the branches from breaking off (which frankly has happened several times). Another interesting version I saw somewhere, maybe at the Fine Gardening website, was to install a kind of skeleton gazebo around your tomato plot, and then run string or wire vertically from the top horizontal section, to the ground where the string is connected to short stakes in the ground. I think your system is a good bit simpler, and probably less expensive.

By: Orange Crush

Orange Crush — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:55:36 +0000

Just one season of growing indeterminate tomatoes has shown me that I definitely needed a better way to support them. Just looking at the cages and little flimsy poles they make, I knew that wouldn’t work. I did use ten foot 1X1, but i didn’t have a good system of attaching the plant for support, so I still ended up with plants that went up and then went back down when I ran out of 1X1 (the 1X1 was about 2 foot in the ground so was about 8 foot high). The system that I want to try seems similar to the one on your video, but it’s a little different, and maybe not quite as expensive to do. The video was on Youtube and it shows commercial tomato growers’ version of trellising. What they do is place a stake between each tomato plant, so you have tomato plant, stake, tomato plant, stake. A good quality string is used to “weave” in and out of the plants and stakes. I found it while looking for videos on pruning, but it also shows their trellising system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eak7yj0tEvM Just curious is anyone has tried this before and how it turned out for them? Also, a couple notes on pulling suckers….by pulling suckers you will end up with larger fruit, but also fewer fruit. With determinate varieties of tomatoes, you start pulling suckers much later than with indeterminate varieties. One more thing…what do you think of the new UV light reflective plastic mulches? I had a problem with thrips and the tomato spotted virus they spread this year…so I’m thinking about incorporating all these things into my tomato gardening next year…raised beds, UV reflective mulch and the trellis system on that video. Any ideas?

By: Another Trellis Design for the Veggie Garden » Veggie Gardening Tips

Another Trellis Design for the Veggie Garden » Veggie Gardening Tips — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:41:21 +0000

[...] still love the support system that I shared in my tomato trellising video, but there are so many great options and techniques for supporting your plants and they will all [...]

By: sam

sam — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:24:49 +0000

I could not get the tomato trellising video to go for me..any ideas?

By: Scenes From The Garden – August 16 : Veggie Gardener

Scenes From The Garden – August 16 : Veggie Gardener — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:06:51 +0000

[...] plants that have gone out of control. I plan on using a trellis system like the one featured at Veggie Gardening Tips. Hopefully, it will make growing tomatoes a bit more [...]

By: Eugene Gore

Eugene Gore — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:56:35 +0000

Hi! I will be brief. My trellis system is… I use fence stakes or some other type of metal pipes to stick in the ground. For the horizontal lines I use the plastic pipes from the Home Depot which are used for the electric wiring. They are around $1 for an 8 foot pipe. The rest is easy to understand. These plastic pipes are light, easy to handle and even do not lose their color. You can keep them and reuse them forever. I use a rope from the dollar store which will be enough for several seasons and more. It is by the way natural, so enjoy. That is it, easy, cheap, and long lasting.

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:06:49 +0000

Thanks MRK, the tomato trellis is still holding up well and the some of the tomato vines have grown over six feet tall and reached the highest wire. Even then they can continue to grow along the wire. It looks like I have a tomato fence and is much more attractive than the usual jumbled mess of tomato vines. I should probably be pruning the tomatoes better than I have but this system is working great!