This video show all the different ways you can use strips of nylon panty hose to tie your tomato plants to a stake in your garden. The second half of the vid…
TOMATO PLANTS TIED TO A STAKE
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This video show all the different ways you can use strips of nylon panty hose to tie your tomato plants to a stake in your garden. The second half of the vid…
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Cont: If the stem is firmly attached to the ground you can break the stem
if you pull on it too hard. They will snap in a heartbeat. I would think
you could lift a 3 foot stem up to the stake and slowly slide something to
cut the roots if they don’t come out using your fingers. Gently is the
operable word here. Two people would make it easier. Without seeing them
this is the best advice I can give you. We are going to the river. Bye!
Several people ask me how I tied them to the stakes, so I did a video.
Thanks for watching.
thank you so much will do on Sunday i have the day off:) and i am sure i
can find someone to help. thank you for putting my mind at easy i would
hate to kill them
I appreciate your comment.
My plants are getting mighty thick and bushy. Do you have any rules on
thinning?
imstillworkin: My video “Fall tomatoes How we get them” on 9-30-12 and/or
“Garden Update on 10-24-12 so where the tomatoes are on the stakes last
year and we had a bad drought. I also added some to jumturner’s comment.
I agree
ok i have a odd question i have been working tooo much and have not been in
any ideas would
the garden so today i went out and a lot of my tomatoes have over grown and
are more like bushes lol. i have the steaks there because i was going to
tie them but did not have the time. Now the plant is growing along the
ground should i try and tie it up ??? or just let it be. I don’t want to
kill the plant as it is trying to root to the ground now
be great thank you
First you have to tie what you are going to use to tie them up with to the
stake high enough to tie the longest part that is on the ground. You may
need to use several ties up the stake. Gently lift the plant up off the
ground and if necessay gently pull the rooted part out of the soil. If your
have help let them hold the plant while you start tying from the bottom up.
Alone lift it up to the highest point it will reach and tie it off. Then
tie the lower parts to relive the strain on the stem.
Tim: The only ptunning I do is at the bottom of the plants to keep the
leaves from getting splashed on when it rains because of soil bourne
diseases. I tie everything to the stake and other stem until they reach
over the top of the stake. Then I train them to the next tomato stake or
the one across the row. When you grow large tomato plants with a lot of
stems and fruit the sheer weight of the plant does not work well with the
weave system in my opinion. I do have a stake fall over in bad storms
I may use to stacks next year…I have used a weave system the last couple
of years….my plants are 5-6 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide where they have
come out of the weave…do you prune yours to keep them in the row? I
pruned mine some up until the rains came and I couldn’t get into the garden
for a week or two and it was over by then…the plants grew as fast out as
they did up….They are producing good but hard to pick the middle
row….no walking between the rows….Thanks….Tim
Great tips, thanks.
Tim: You can watch my video “Fall tomatoes How we get them” on 9-30-12
and/or “Garden update” 10-24-12 and you can see where the tomato plants
are. Some have grown to the top of the stake and almost back the the ground
and others are on the next stake 3′ away and still growing. some of my rows
are crowded because of the size of the tops growing together with the next
one. And We had the worst drought I have ever known last mid season.
and i hope you enjoyed your time at the river
imstillworkin: I just keep tying them up until I can no longer reach them
without using a ladder. I then used a ladder if they can reach another
stake in the same row or across the row and then the mass just grows
together with the other plant. Usually I do not have to to much tying the
keep them there and the grow horizonally until the first frost. They can
get real heave especially after a rain. I have had them fall over in a
hurricane & TRW’s. See comment answer above this one from timturner.