10ft Tall Tomatoes? Making the trellis and planting more veggies
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- What started out as a simple day filling the raised beds in the Potager garden turned into something more, isn't that always the way? Due to an abundance of tomato plants, I needed to come up with a better way to support them. Each season, I've tried a variety of willow obelisks, tomato cages and plain old stakes and by mid summer, the plants are a tangled mess with the fruit struggling to ripen amongst the chaos.
Having seen how so many people grow them on cordons, aka on twine by suspending the support from greenhouse frames or hoops in a hoop house, I knew that I wanted to try to make the same thing happen but I needed something high up above the beds to hang them from. What I came up with is a simple pipe frame using hardware from Maker Pipe, which will allow my tomatoes 10ft of vertical growing space. So join me for some tomato engineering as I build yet another structure for my garden, admittedly these are easier to put up and can be taken down at the end of the season.
Black Natural Twine: amzn.to/3NE5Zbs
Maker Pipe fittings, I used 3/4 EMT conduit: makerpipe.com
My irrigation supplies all come from Drip Depot, the raised beds feature:
1/4 Drip Line with 6 inch spacing between pressure compensating emitters
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6" stakes for 1/4 line, these hold in fluffy soil well and don't crimp the delicate tubing:
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I notice you do nothing on a small scale. Lol Love all your creativity, it looks amazing.
Soil and Margarita had her husband create some tomato cages that I think you would like.
I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion!
zip ties and prayer. LOL