We are finnally addressing our mess of tomatoes. They are super overgrown and needing staking.
VIDEO: Single Stemming our Mess of Tomatoes
We are finnally addressing our mess of tomatoes. They are super overgrown and needing staking.
We are finnally addressing our mess of tomatoes. They are super overgrown and needing staking.
Back to your fighting weight I see. Well done young man.
FYI plant chives near roses n anything that aphids attack, they dont like chives. I plant a chive plant with all my roses n near gardens. Be aware, chives will try to take over somewhat, but are a perennial n taste great in many recipes so… grow some.
I do this but I use zip ties.
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If you tie the top first, you won’t have to balance it on your head.
https://youtu.be/HsMM4_K0nTU
NOW…take the strong suckers you just cut off, dip in rooting hormone and re-plant. Never enough tomatoes.
I’ve been using your tie up method for the last 2 years and it’s been great! Got my hand on the elastics this year too and don’t have to worry about my tomatoes getting constricted too!
I have also have been unable to get my tomatoes staked due to rain. I live in Tennessee and have a traditional garden approximately 3500 sq ft. of mostly clay dirt. I would have liked to seen a closer look at how you pruned them down. I seem to get very intimidated by which stems to cut.
IS THE TYING STRING BIODEGRADEABLE ?
We have 8 foot t posts that we put in the ground the same day we transplant seedlings into the garden beds. This way we’re not disrupting roots adding the posts in later, they’re always on the ideal side of the plant which gets trained up the post from an early age, and they just go in the shed in the winter until the next growing season.
What does it mean when your tomato leaves curl?
The elastic that you use to tie with is also sold at Hobby Lobby.
i string up and clip single stem. Works great every year; and a lot less work.
I started tomato plants from seed and they got to about 6 inches tall but some of them have to major stalks because I but in more seeds. Should I clip one of them when planting or is it ok to plant them that way?
Again get you some more T post and cattle panel and make yourself another arch trellis. And stop buying furring strips every year.
I always single stem my tomatoes. I won't grow any other way.
Hi, how are your tomatoes faring after the severe cut back?
I took your advice and use an elastic to tie my tomatoes up and it works so well.
I'm curious as to how many pounds of Tomatoes you will have with massively pruning? When I grew Tomatoes back a years ago, I had 16 plants in two 4X8 raised beds, and produced a little over 1,000 pounds. I did a small amount of pruning to ensure good air passage, but I would never consider single stemming.
Novice gardener here! This video pop-up just in time! I have tomatoes in a cage, and found one of them had toppled over night. They are big and bushy and super crowded in they cages. I saw you have tomatoes already on the vine while you did this. Can I still attempt the single stemming this late in the game?
Nice!!
Do you sell seeds?
I use metal rebar stakes. A little higher initial investment, but they last forever. They are also easier to get into hard or rocky soil and will not bend or break if the plants get too top heavy.
Video starts at 5:36 (5 minutes of blather)
Stakes fall over.. as you will find out, I see your future. I use an overhead support made of steel post, plastic pipe tees slipped over the tee post tops and joined in between with plastic pipe.. Then wrap twine loosely around the base of the tomato and wrap it a little more as it grows, tying it to the overhead support. Only issue is making it tall enough which is indeterminate, pun intended.. Six too eight feet or more.. Do the single stem too.. Love it! This year I moved to a sunnier more open area.. Will build a similar trellis like thing eight feet high of scrap lumber, scrounged over the years, should look fancy. Thanks.
I am hoping you can help me. Friday morning I went out and watered my garden and smiled that I had so many cherokee Purple on the vines. This morning, Sunday, I went to water and noticed every single tomato was picked clean off those vines. I have a hard time believing one animal could do that. Any advice? Suggestions? I honestly think it was garden theft. Not a trace of the tomatoes anywhere. Vines aren't broken or damaged.
You seem to have waited too long before you started single stemming.
Have you seen the trellis design that Brian over at Next Level Gardening uses?