Tomato Cages: How to Make Supports for Healthier Tomato Plants
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2015
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Training and supporting your tomatoes correctly is essential to help you get the best possible harvest from your plants.
It's important to ensure that tomatoes get enough air circulation and that the fruits are well supported to prevent branch breakage and slug damage. Correct pruning and training gives your plants the airflow and support they need to keep them productive and healthy.
In this video we explain how to choose the best supports for both bush and cordon tomato plants and show how to make inexpensive homemade tomato cages.
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You've the best video on this topic. Appreciate you getting to the point, and not acting overly excited when speaking. Thumbs up!
Cheers Jake!
Love your videos! Short and sweet but packed with essential info!
What a great idea to bury the supports while planting the tomato! I've embedded mine after the plants had matured with varying results. Tnx for this!
In this video we explain how to choose the best supports for both bush and cordon tomato plants and show how to make inexpensive home-made tomato cages:
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My tomato supports are permant fixtures in my garden. I have raised beds that are 2 feet by 16 feet long. Down the middle of the raised beds I have wire fencing supported by 4x4 post and framed with 2x4's. I just tie the tomatoes to the fencing as they grow, at the end of the season, I just snip the ties and pull the plants away from the wire. Works with my peas, cucumbers, beans, and pepper plants.
Teresa H Great idea. The one caution to mention here is that to prevent soil-borne pests or depletion of nutrients in a setup like this it's important to rotate the soil in the garden, or at least put a good few inches of new soil/compost on top every year.
I wasn't around for a while and when I came back I found my tomato a bush😂,I didn't know they grew so wide,im gonna try this method thanks
That's brilliant - what a lovely surprise!
Thank you for all your information. So very much Appreciated.
Another awesome helpful video, thank you very much
I use heavy duty twine and a trellis on all four corners of my raised bed. The twine is tied to the trellis in a woven pattern. This creates squares that the tomatoes grow through and supports them.
Great info, thank you!
thanks for the tips...
You made it simple to follow 👍🏼👍🏼
All we did was buy a couple of dozen T-Bar fence posts and we string baler twine to create a climbing fence and then hook the plant stems as they grow. They get re-used every year for the last 15 years and use much less space. We grow a variety of cherry tomatoes, what we call "eaters" (Campbell, Brandywine) and San Marzano
Thank you for this video it's very helpful
This just the video I needed. My tomatoes are growing so fast and falling.
I love all of your videos! Thank you!
Glad you like them!
This is some really good info
I am growing upside down . So far they are doing great they are huge and have fruit. Havent sprayed with any organtic pest control that my plants on the ground have needed. Can also take inside when bad storms have come.
phxtonash Yes, we're considering doing a video on this in the future.
Good Video.
We use 1/2" P.V.C conduit we insert 5 into soil over length greenhouse then horizontal ones every 12 inches from soil, we also use string from greenhouse sides to hold upright in position as they carry lot weight, we exceed 350lbs tomatoes a year in 10ft x 8ft greenhouse,seems to work for us.
Wow, that's an incredible harvest!
The weight from one indeterminate tomato plant can exceed 50 pounds. Dangling string from the framework of the greenhouse structure works (depending on the structures specs) but I have tried using dangling the string from a horizontal rope and it failed. I would be very cautious as to the # of plants that you use on one rope/string with that method.
Chuck
Fensterfarm Greenhouse Agreed, though if you use a horizontal wire that is very firmly attached to the main support parts of the greenhouse then it can work. Also, in some more temperate climates (mine included) we rarely get 50 pounds of fruit. By growing cordon cherry-size fruiting types, the fruit develops over a much longer season which limits the weight. Thanks for the comment though!
Simple and double tips
Hi, i live in condo.. then the best method i think tie the plant with stick.. because it getting heavy and tall.. besides i put it in black plastic.
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Welcome! Thanks for subscribing. I'll add your suggestions to our video planning list, so next time we all sit down to a meeting we can discuss them. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of our videos. :-)
I lake your tomato cage
Nice tomahhhtos.
LoL
I have a packet of mixed heirloom tomatoes - any way I can tell at seedling stage if a particular plant is determinate or indeterminate?
I made my trellis' out of cattle panel sections. They are 20 x 4 feet. I cut them in half with bolt cutters resulting in 2 10x4 foot sections. I stand them on end so that my trellis is 4 feet wide and ten feet high. I have tomatoes that are 13 feet high right now. The cattle panels are designed to keep cattle fenced in and are virtually indestructable from a gardening perspective.
The Meat Trapper Wow, 13 feet high already! That's going to be a big harvest!
My tomato plants are barely 1ft tall and already starting to flower. I have been removing those trusses in hopes they will spend more energy now growing taller and then let them fruit later.
Did everything wrong so got huge plants grown on the ground all mixed up with eachother but luckily (suprisingly) still giving a crazy amount of tomato
That's great to hear you're still cropping well. :-)
Wear safely glasses when working w/ that wire fencing - it can snap back! Ouch!
We made tomato cages out of conduit and welded together
Hi there, thanks for wonderful video. In my place there are more insect and other attacks on the vegetables. Do you made any videos to build a small green net to keep them away. If you made one please share the link. Thanks
We haven't yet. We generally recommend using insect mesh or similar to keep pests off. Row covers made of fleece would also help.
If you do not have to many plants, dump your dishwater on them. Dawn dish detergent is environmentally friendly to everything except insects, which it kills.
@@mollybrown8633 wont the Dawn Detergent harm the roots?
Yeah I don't use any of these ways...
Possibly why I have stems breaking and everything else.
I seem to run into the problem where if I use strings it cuts off the circulation.
I do suckers and then I go for a week not being able to get to them, by that time a whole new sucker stem has grown.
But each year I try something different having in mind that this will work great
And then time restraints this that and the other set in and I end up with a jungle on the ground.
So far each year's been different in harvest abundance.
I guess I'm the guy that is always going to say, wow your garden looks great...🤦
Although, 🤔 I can grow weeds 😃
But at least my rooting system is getting better...
Time is always a big restraint - there's never enough of it!
Where do you get your rolls of concrete reinforcing mesh from? I can only find it in sheets
This came in a roll from my local hardware store. The gauge of the mesh was too close, so I had to cut out sections from each to give a wider gauge square. From memory it came from a Jewsons here in the UK.
Hi Please could you let me know where you purchased the wire mesh from to make the cage. I have been looking all over the internet to find large sized hole mesh to know avail. Thanks
for a very informative video.
I had to bug mesh with smaller holes and then cut holes to make them a bit bigger, which isn't ideal. It's quite hard to source mesh like the one in the video in the UK it seems. I recently bought some suitable mesh though. You want to search under 'stock fencing'. Here's a link: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=stock+fencing&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
GrowVeg Thank you so much for your response. On it now. Happy gardening and stay safe.
Hi! My tomato leaves is 3weeks tall..still small and the stem seems so fragile and weak. What should i do? Should i put fertilizer on the soil?
I wouldn't start feeding the plants until they have their first flowers. Just make sure they are getting plenty of sunshine and water as necessary to keep them growing.
Thanks for your reply. But should i keep them direct on the sun even they r still small?
Liked the video cuz he said to mah tos
why do you remove suckers when those branches will give tomatoes?
what's the point? :)
friendly question.
If you tomato is a vining tomato, the suckers (or side-shoots) are removed so that the plant concentrates more on flower and fruit production, rather than growing yet more foliage. In a very warm climate with a long growing season, you could potentially allow some of these to grow and produce more flowers and fruits, but in most instances it's best to limit foliage growth to guarantee a good crop of tomatoes before the end of the season.
oh, I actually let my suckers be, to let the tomato grow as much as possible, since I noticed that suckers are giving tomatoes. I have tomatoes inside in an pot and during this summer I took out my in door tomato to let it go wild outside. it's the first year for me to do it, but I guess taking away the suckers would maybe work better since I live in an climate with an short summer.
i need some tips. i have been growing my tomatoes for 18 days and they're only two inches tall. is that normal?
Kenzie Rayne Tomatoes can take a little time to get going, so don't worry too much. They do need plenty of warmth and light - so make sure you're offering them this.
GrowVeg I need to keep mine indoors because i live in Texas. i learned through trial and error not to take them outside.....
Can you explain how a caged tomato plant gets support from the cages? Thank you
It literally supports the tomato all around, so it can flop to one side but remain upright. The cage funnels growth upwards, keeping plants off the ground.
@@GrowVeg thank you! Can you tie plant to cage also?
I take milk gallon jugs take a ice pic and make a small hole about a inch from the bottom. This makes a cheep water.
How can i check if my tomatoes are bush or vining?
Christine Ménard You'll need to look up the variety online and any seed catalog should tell you which that variety is.
The first suckers make very easy cuttings, but, naturally, fruit later
my tomato plants are always attacked by white fly's.I use soap water 2 get rid of them,yet they come back after 5 day's.what do i do
They can be persistent, and repeat applications of your soapy water will be necessary (some inevitably don't get sprayed and once they plants have dried out enough they can spread back over the plants). Try to get your soapy water into every nook and cranny. Also, look to grow marigolds with your tomatoes, which can help to deter whiteflies.
thanks a lot
Hi, your video is of a tremendous help. Many thanks for your effort! Now, the question: what is the diameter of the reinforced concrete mesh wire? I suppose it's galvanised? Thanks again.
The tomato mesh support is 18-22in / 45-55cm in diameter. It is galvanised.
GrowVeg Thanks! Just want to know the diameter of the wire itself, I can find here only 4mm wire which is rather hard to bend. I mean the reinforced concrete mesh is made of 4mm wire.
But I grew the tomato plants so how I give support to tomato plant
It depends what type of tomato you are growing. Vining/indeterminate types need strong bamboo cane supports or similar vertical supports. Bush/determinate types need less support - just tying to a sturdy stake.
@@GrowVeg In my tomato plants yellow flowers are came it has crushed leaves so many lines in between and its stem's size is like a 12 year boy pinky finger. Light green colour
Is "chewbe" a fancy name for a cage?
Not sure what you mean @ascott?
You sound like Jude Law in the voiceover
It’s like watching Elton John 😅
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So large words. Hiding the things what you supposed to show
you could also explain the dangers of tetanus as that cage is a deathtrap,go and help yourself to a tomato children Oh my god why did you slash your wrists lol.
great video and appreciated nonetheless.
Point taken. We'll be more mindful of this in future, thanks for pointing this out.
Why do you have to make everything so freaking dramatic. That British accent doesn't help either. Just give the information man!!!!. How did you people conquered the world? Jesus!!!!!
We're sorry you find it all dramatic. Gardening can be very exciting/dramatic at times! We hope you enjoy some of our other videos - we try to get to the point and offer advice as precisely and quickly as possible.
Agilaos you are an arsehole
Cannons of course
@@rocky5755 whats an arsehole
Agilaos Haitis it’s the hole just below your back. Use both hands and see if you can find it.