How To Stake and String Tomatoes and Tomatillos with the Florida Weave
In this video I’ll show how to stake and string tomato and tomatillo plants using the Florida Weave method. I’ll also describe a few of my other favorite tomato trellising systems.
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whats the name of that red hammer? i cant see on the net.
I just wonder what kind of shrubs did you plant by the fence.
Just found your informative videos and am so glad I did! Love your easy trellis system. I have everything on hand to make this work for my tomatoes this season. Thanks!
This looks great. I’m going to use this for the tomatoes on my balcony this year.
A couple helpful thoughts I've learned (the hard way) doing this. Do not use natural string or twine. It stretches and loosens when it gets wet and does not retighten as it dries. Bailing twine works best if you can find it. Also, it's important to drive stakes in deep or they can loosen when it rains and get pulled in by the twine. Then the twine goes loose (again). I tried this after seeing Charles Dowding used this with his garden peas. Unfortunately I lost a lot of my pea crop due to the twine loosening. Urban Farmsteads how-to is fantastic. Wish I had seen it before using it on my peas. I will use it again.
That’s the most helpful and concise Florida Weave vid I’ve seen yet. Thanks!
Clearest Florida weave explanation I've seen, I got 6' T posts any advice about top trimming?
Very nice!
Are you trimming any of the suckers on these Tomatoe plants or are you just letting the whole plants grow and keeping them all tucked in the FL weave?
I'm going to try this with my tomatillos this year. I live in Chicago where squirrels invade my crop, but discard their cast offs in my CRANKY (also connected) neighbor's yard. So I need to net the plants. If anyone has ideas on how to do that and be able to gain access to the fruits without major effort please reply! 🙂
You said that with the stake system you have to pinch out the growth. Do you not pinch out with the weave system?
Many people actually weave in and out of each plant. Can you talk to how your method worked in the long run, without weaving in between each plant?
I did the same with Woodprix 🙂
Don't use "flimsy little cages." Do like I have and make them out of concrete reinforcement wire. Mine are 20 years old and still going strong. Staking and trellising is TOO MUCH WORK. Read any university horticulture article and they will tell you the research shows that removing suckers reduces yield. I grow 100 vines (Parks Whoppers because they are very resistant to leaf blight).
Hi, why didn't you alternate the weave side between EACH tomato plant? Thanks for your work!
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I'm going to do this right now!!! I hope it goes well for me
Do you run the tomato row North South or East West? Last year we did E/W, I think the tomatoes grew predominantly on the north side of the row. The south side was mostly leaves.
I'm going to try running rows North South this year.
Thanks for the video, very informative. I’m just getting ready to set mine up now. I had already bought the steel garden stakes that are plastic on the outside. I know these are a lot less heavy duty than the t stakes so I bought 5. Do you think weaving and wrapping around all 5 will be enough to support 8 plants?
Remesh panels are similar and less expensive
Sometimesa dog or other animal runs through the wall of tomatoes and whoosh! Goodbye tomato branches. I have to restring and the tomatoes have to grow back new branches. It works but not as good as a panel. I will make 12 × 5 wattle panels with bamboo next year instead. Tired of constant stringing and fixing broken string and limbs.
Just subscribed to your channel. Lots of good information…I observed your fence plants ( trees) are over grown, are you not shading your neighbors yard?
Can you use the Florida weave system for beans?
Yes as we became better tomato growers they get bigger
I'm going to the 8' T post next season on panels.
Thanks for the good teaching
So you don't have suckers with this system?
Do you take out the posts every year to rework the beds of do you leave them?
Hi Kyle, do you pinch the suckers when yo do this method?
Nice