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  • #1

    how do you support you tomatoes

    since Mrs Rucks Tomato thread went off-topic I thought tomato supports need there own thread.
    there several common methods for supporting tomato plants
    1.tying to pole or wooden post
    2. training around string hung from frame.
    3. trellis.
    4. tomato cage.
    5.other(if other please describe or post a picture.
    which way do you support your tomatoes plants?
    If the method is or is not on the list above please post picture your tomatoes plant supporting method.
    Last edited by rollingrock; 29-05-2016, 08:45 PM.
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    Almost all the toms I grow are cordons in the polytunnel. They're supported by twisting around string tied to the cross bars.

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    • #3
      With my limited knowledge of growing them I follow the crowd and use either a stake or fixed string. I have looked at cages and in an averaged size greenhouse I think it would take up too much space for too little increase (potential) in yield.

      As i grow cherry toms traditional methods seem to work best, for me anyhow
      Last edited by Greenleaves; 29-05-2016, 08:51 PM.

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      • #4
        I have a taut wire that runs the length of my polytunnel from which I suspend strings. I dig the planting hole for the plant, put the other end of the string in it, and pop the plant on top ensuring the string stays taut. Eventually the plants roots will pin the string firmly into the ground and I wind the stem of the plant carefully round the string.
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        • #5
          I use bamboo poles & trellis.
          Location : Essex

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          • #6
            In the past I have used tomato spirals, metal spirals about 5 foot long and you twist the plane round them as it grows. Saves tying them in but only good for cordons. Not entirely impressed with them and have now given them away. I prefer the string method.
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            • #7
              What is the most common method you use in the USA Rollingrock?

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              • #8
                I use canes. My GH hasn't an upper metal bar to tie from . I tried cordon with string in pots , it didn't work.
                Northern England.

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                • #9
                  I use a single cane and twine to tie tom to cane, and 4 canes with string tied around and between them for the tall bush ones.
                  No support obviously for small ones growing in pots

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by rollingrock View Post
                    please post pictures of your tomatoes plant supporting methods
                    Would love to see photos of your cages with unpruned tomatoes

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Containergardener View Post
                      I use canes. My GH hasn't an upper metal bar to tie from . I tried cordon with string in pots , it didn't work.
                      You can get bolts with wire hoops that you can secure into the GH grooves. These can be used to tying on wires and string.

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                      • #12
                        I don't have a picture - I sit the baby plants on polytwine so the roots anchor it in place. I twist the plants around the twine as they grow. The twine goes up to a horizontal bamboo at the top of the g/h straight wall and then goes diagonally up to another at the apex. Hopefully that means I can squeeze another truss out of each of the 14 plants.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Alison View Post
                          Almost all the toms I grow are cordons in the polytunnel. They're supported by twisting around string tied to the cross bars.
                          Likewise, Cordons twisted around string, Bush varieties in chicken wire cages.
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                          • #14
                            Four bamboo canes one in each corner of the square flower buckets, brought together and cable tied at the top, then I use spring clips from the £1 shop to connect the tomato to the canes, the little pyramids save the plants fro the football that the kids next door kick over every now and then and I have found it to be the most stable method of supplying support.

                            I've re landscaped this year and the sloping pavement is now in steps like the one the greenhouse sits on, then the drainage holes in the flower buckets set about 20mm from the bottom on all four sides will be level.
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                              That's an interesting idea, Cadalot - are those bush tomatoes or cordons, and if cordons, what happens when they get to the top of the pyramid? (I should perhaps say are they inderterminate).
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