This tomato plant is over 6 feet tall and still growing!!! I bought this at Home Depot so I don’t know the exact kind of seed that was used. But, I will save…
Question by Cassy: Do you have to stake a tomato plant?
I received three different types of tomato plants for free a few weeks back and 2 are flowering. I have 15 plants all together I know some are cherry tomatoes and some are some type of yellow tomato and i don’t know what the other are. Sorry I am not very knowledgeable about my plants but they were given to my mother from an Amish lady here in ohio and she couldn’t remember everything she said.
Do I have to stake these plants? I tried to look up tomato plants on Google but I couldn’t find much to compare them too. This is my first year gardening and I would really like to stick with it. I find it fun and relaxing. I like caring for the plants and I feel very successful that they look like they are doing good. Any gardening types would be great =]
also I am growing broccoli and wow it the rabbits have been my worst enemy.
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Yes, tomato cages would the best in my opinion. They are fairly cheap and easy to find. You want to keep the fruit off the ground and help the branches support the heavy fruit.
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and you are right!!! loaded down!!! and it’s still growing!!!
nice! looks like there’s lots of tomatoes on it too.
Yes you should stake the tomato’s because otherwise once the tomatoes grow they will become really heavy and pull your plant onto the ground.
Also try sprinkling a little cayenne pepper around your broccoli, they won’t go anywhere near it because the smell is so strong but it’s not bad for them if they somehow manage to ingest it.
I’d stake ’em.
No, you don’t have to and many experts say not staking leads to healthier plants. But letting them sprawl will mean it is harder to harvest the fruits and you will likely get more damage to the fruits from ice, fungus and bugs. Commercial tomatoes farms used to never stake their plants.
if you do stake them find out if you have determinant or indeterminant (ask your mom to ask the Amish woman about this). if they are determinants you can use tomato cages because they will be small but if they are inderminates than you have to use 7′ tall fence stakes to keep them upright because they will be too big for the cages and will just fall over cage and all.
And since you say that are flowering I would go with letting them sprawl as staking them at this point in time will be hard on the plants and they will likely go into shock and lose all their flowers and fruit