This method is my time favorite method for staking tomatoes in raised
beds. We are able to stake our tomatoes for $1.50 per plant and the
stakes are bigger, stronger, and last 5 times longer than the cheap
tomato cages at big box stores.
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Great Video! I am off to the store to get some stakes. I have 2 8ft x 4ft x 2.5ft high beds for tomatoes and peppers (height keeps woodchucks and rabbits out). I use two 10 ft T-posts on which i mounted 8ft long cattle panel (cattle panel comes on 16 ft long sections so I got two 8ft sections) So far my heirlooms love it, however they did get blight due tot rain and high humidity this year! I tie the branches tot he cattle panel as weaving them through has hurt the stems the year before. I will utilize your method for some branches that are not playing nicely and have a mind of their own! Thanks for sharing!
You can cut some small notches in those stakes, and they will hold the wire in place so it doesn't slide up and down and will hold the plant in place better.
My indeterminate tomatoes in California grow way past 6', more like 12 feet. I have to prune the top to avoid a tomato jungle. I use a 6' rebar stake that I plunk into the ground about a foot. Always too short of course. And I use twine to tie the tomatoes to it. The others are inside 10' cages that we built from cattle panel. Super awesome.
instead of wire to tie i use old cloths and cut in to strips this season my bed 15 foot long 2 foot wide going to put in a post at both ends and make a 6 foot hi 5 wire fence and tie them kind of how u do with grapes
sleeksalmon…I also use the ones from home depot 54in…gauge is strong enough to last for years…I have a german Queen tomato plant that needs all 7ft of cage..best tomatoes i have ever grown…you ought to try..I am in So california…it can take good summer heat…they taste similar to Cherokee Purple
6-foot bamboo stakes are a buck and a few cents apiece through Amazon if you buy a pack of 25. My tomatoes always seem to get much taller than the 4-foot cages I used to use, so I switched to staking. I don't think 4' stakes would cut it for me.
I'm intrigued by the variety of tomatoes from Italy. Are they available to order here in the states? Would love to get some. Past few years here in VA we have been plagued with an overabundance of rain and blight is my nemesis.
Great video, @***** – Very easy to follow. Have similar recommendations for space constraint squashes/zucchinis?
I use the cheap tomato cages for pepper plants. They work pretty well for that.
I have used 1×2's for a while. But, what I did for years is build a trellis with them. I used them for both the uprights and cross beams. I could put 5 uprights in 8ft across. The only problem is with large indeterminate tomatoes, when they get big will catch a lot of wind. My solution to that was to build 2 of them and connect them with a couple pieces of 1×2 to form a box of sorts. I did have to tie them up as they grew (also weave them through the trellis), but it worked well for a compact space. For tying tomatoes to 1×2's, I use old cotton shirts cut into strips.
My favorite way is to use long bamboo sticks with some rope. There is a million ways to tie it. I like doing a tipi with three sticks, tying them on top, then passing the rope down to creat a trellis.
I place a 16 ft cattle panel on one side of each of my beds. One year I will use them for tomatoes others I'll use them for vining squash, pole beans etc and they will outlast me lol.
WIRE?
http://www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-2-in-x-8-ft-Furring-Strip-Board-160954/100009348
pick up water seal from garage/estate sales, slap on with chip brush (before you put in soil) and they will last much longer.
our you could spend less than $3 n buy a 2×4 and run it through a table saw and get four, 8 footers for $3 instead of $16!
steak first as you will annihilate the root cluster.
Producing clean and high quality tomatoes stake them
1 X 2's are only 99 cents at Lower in Houston, Tx. And $1.05 at Home Depot.
Best & fastest & easiest & chif method nice thank u for youtube vidio.
So Illegal and so irresponsible to plant a foreign species smuggled in, with who knows what pests. You did ask him if he checked with customs?
Cut lengths of run pantyhose. they give and dont hurt the stem as it grows. Been using for years
I am doing a combo this year. I did the stake and the tomato cages. I am testing it on my roma tomatoes.
I'm going with bamboo. free.
I bought some of the firring strips and they are great. thank you
Thanks for actually mentioning the 3"-4" distance of how far to put the stake in the ground from the stem.So many other tomato staking vids don'y even mention this imperative step.
I love that you have links for several options and methods. I thank you sir
zzzz. skip to 5:55
My furring strips only cost me $1.20 per 8 foot section.
You got ripped off. I buy 8-foot long 2×2's from Home Depot for less than $2 apiece.