I'll be taking a week-long trip to Boston in a couple days, so I need to get my little garden prepared for my absence. I planted some of these seeds a couple weeks ago and the plant has gone gangbusters thanks to Tropical Storm Darby's rain and subsequent humidity. When I get back, I want to see this:
Unfortunately, if you don't provide indeterminate tomato plants with sufficient support, you'll end up with a sprawling mess of diseased leaves and broken stems. My previous efforts were lackluster. . . sticks tied together with a bit of netting strung between for support. I'd post a picture, but I'm too embarrassed. I got some decent tomato yields using those lackluster supports, but I knew I could do better. So I bought this 50-foot roll of galvanized re-mesh wire and some badass bolt cutters and got to work. For a 2-foot diameter cylinder, I cut off a little over 6 feet (remember circumference = π*d? neither did I) and found a couple of lovely assistants to help secure cable ties on all the intersecting corners:
The end result gives my aggressive tomato plant 7-feet of durable rust-resistant trellis to climb while I'm away:
I really can't wait to see where this grows. Until next time, steem on!
great work, what's the variety of the yellow tomatoes? I have grown Yellow Pear tomatoes that look similar, they are hard to tame for sure! We use a cable and string system in our greenhouse for indeterminate varieties, lot's of work, but it does the job!
I kinda buried this link, it's Barry's Crazy Cherry Tomato I'm told the yields are insane, can't wait to see how much it produces.
Gotcha ! thanks
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Thanks for the spotlight, much appreciated!
Thanks, it was surprisingly easy to put up! And I've got enough on that roll to make 7 more, my garden's gonna look like a prison soon!
Keep up the good work! Liking the content :)
Thanks for listening, I enjoy sharing these stories!
Gardens are the best. I need to get back into growing my own fresh organic food. Been too long.
Oh yeah, get up and grow!