Cheaply Trellising LOTS of Tomato Plants (Cattle Panel Wall Trellis & How to Plant Them)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Definitely!! Even if they just did more building episodes having miah explain it all would be awsome!
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Our RUclips relationship with Roots and Refuge started with your vertical gardening video a few years back
Same!!
My first roots and refuge video was about trellising. I was hooked.
Me too!!!
Same!
@@CalliopeFlowerFarm me too!
I love how patient Miah is in the background waiting for Jess to explain the process. What a good man! 😊
Patient because he knows how lucky he is to have a beautiful talented wife like Jess
I was going to say the same thing!
A good man desires to obtain the traits of God. Endures all things and will be beside you no matter what.
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We took our old useless tomato cages, turned them upside down, lashed the loose ends together, wrapped them with white lights, covered them wirh white plastic tablecloths, and made a wonderful "circle of ghosts" for Halloween.
Much better use of them.
I have a pile of them I keep thinking about making into Christmas trees 😁
I use mine for sugar snap peas!
I use mine for so many different plants... none of them being tomatoes.. LOL
Here we have the renowned Tomato Lady in her natural habitat
Hi guys! I just sent my wife ( I'm a retired almost 80, vet who loves your advice) a note that I am attending an 'online seminar' from a 'PhD' (proven horticultural designer) 'bout tomatoes. Keeps me out of the 'doghouse'...scratch that ...greenhouse!
I finally have proof to show my husband why it's a good idea to get panels and not cages! Thank you!!!
You cannot beat my deal! I was deconstructing a box spring to fit in the garbage bin and I discovered it had a wire grid attached to the springs, very similar to a cattle panel!! Took me a couple hours to get all the springs off but I think it'll work really great as a trellis!
Once upon a time I planted some tomato seeds in a pot on my verandah. I watered it and nothing happened. Finally I stopped watering and a while after that I tossed the pot outside in the corner of the garden. And now there is this massive sprawl of tomato jungle all along the ground. I just cut off a few pieces with roots on and I am putting them next to my papaya trees in hope they will climb the trunks. Because since I have no luck starting seeds all special I will just use what is already there, freshen it up a bit and hope for the best.
I have had success with just tucking the tomato branches back and forth in the holes on the cattle panel. It takes a lot less time than tying them on.
Same, i weave mine through also and it works wonders!
Thank you for the tip!
Wonder if that would work for high wind areas?
@@ashleykravig7797 yes, my area is windy and it works
@@jess6327 weaving them in and out works for wind? With just one panels? I'll try it this year if it works! Our gusts get up to 50-60 mph here
Omg, the T clip bender is a LIFESAVER!!! You do a few hundred yards of clips with plyers, and you will cry years of joy when you get one! 😂
Lumnah Acres Homestead allowed their tomatoes to grow up rope in their greenhouse. It was so amazing to see how they grew.
Hi Donna!👋 I'm so ready to watch the Lumnah's greenhouse grow! I forgot all about the ropes in their greenhouse.
This is a method Charles Dowding has been doing for years.
This is how I’m growing in my greenhouse this summer here in the PNW. 🙂
It's the traditional British way :) Thats how everyone does their tomatoes here!
This past season I grew my tomatoes up strings outside, hung from metal conduit run along the top of Y posts, or standards, as we call them in New Zealand. But instead of attaching the plants with clips I wound each stem up a string as I learnt to do with cucumbers when I worked on a cucumber farm. They did great! We don't have cattle panels here.
Can you do a mini video of just your tattoo sleeve PLEASE OH PRETTY PLEASE! I love seeing others art 🌺❤️ 🌻
I second this!!
I think she explained it in the video, 10 things about Jess. There's one about miah as well
Hi Jess, I just wanted to share and hope you read my message...I recently moved to the countryside from Dublin, Ireland (yes....not the best weather I have to say) and started my garden. I felt overwhelmed so I started researching and I found you in the video in which you show runner beans hanging through the arched trellis..well Jess, since then, I have watched your videos everyday and my plot from raw, little by little (and with loads of help) is becoming beautiful...needless to say I have all the material for the Arch trellis myself 😊 thank you for sharing your life and your choices! It's really motivating what you say and I hope one day to have my own little farm and producing all my food at home. I believe everyone should wish and encourage one another to be a gardener!! thank you and your beautiful family❤
2021: The Year of the Cattle Panel Trellis 🌱🐮🍅 Been seeing these go up in gardens all over my area this spring!
Always great tips and reminders! My husband just come home for lunch and said he wants to expand the garden this weekend and grow more stuff! I currently only have a 3x6 box, and it was only my labour of love. I'm so overjoyed to have more garden, I just had to share the good news! While I am still in a place of waiting, my farm dreams are slowly coming to fruition. You are definitely one of the reasons why, and I thank you so much for being in my life by sharing a bit of yours! Now I have more seeds to start and a garden to plan! 🌱😁❤
I use the concrete mesh mounted on t-posts. Yes, they do rust even in the dry climate of AZ!
Last season, I just weaved my tomato plants through the trellis as it grew and it worked amazing!
Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
My 2 year old daughter loves your 'garden videos' :) Today she said, "I need colors on my arm!"
We dream of having a garden one day. Until then, we are growing peas together on our balcony. ☀️
So sweet. My grandson loved the garden when he was that age. He called it a gardee. And would say he wanted to water the tomamoes. 🍅❤️ We will still say tomamo. You should let her plant a pretty flower!🌻☀️
@@apiecemaker1163 That's so cute about the tomamoes. Children are adorable. :) We 'plant water' every day for the plants lol. We are going to plant forget me nots.
Beautiful.👩🌾💛
I painted my t-posts after I saw your videos. I love the bright colors & making my garden look like a carnival! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
I don't have nearly the spread you do Jess, so I use tshirt strips to tie on my tomatoes and cucumbers
You’ve solved our problem today. I’ve got enough tomatoes started to feed half of Italy and like you, long ago gave up on spindly tomato cages.
I have the full size tractor tires I garden out of about 24 of them. I use the concrete reinforcement wire, in cylinder shape at 6 feet tall, my tomatoes thrive on them, growing another 18 inches taller than them. They are rusty but solid, will probably spray paint them in cute colors.
I know that Jess did a favourite garden tool vlog, would love to see a collaboration with Jess and Miah on favorite homestead tools!🙂
The only plant that brought down our cattle panel ,using 1 Tpost on each side of the arch, was just 4 seeds from Zucchini Rampicante ---- there is a lot of bang in those 4 seeds!
I find that using nylon twine and plant clips is much easier and cheaper to use as a trellis. Have used this method for a few years now.
Yayy Tomato trellis for the Win!!! :P Yes Remesh and rebar rusts. So many people have commented and said that it doesn't affect the plants and they have lasted over 40 years for some people. So happy to see you planting.. I'm patiently waiting for my turn.
Yeah, I don't have a problem with rust or how it looks... it's "rustic" lol
Does my heart good to see a person I admire greatly to give support and a shout out to my lovely friend Mallorie. 🥰 I agree any rust will be negligible and not affect the fruit. There is also always the option of spray painting them in some lovely bright fun colours.
I remember when you started your garden tours Jess. The world fell in love with your garden. And suddenly RUclips exploded with people building raised beds with cattle panels 😂😂😂😂😂. You definitely started a trend.
We got "handi panels" from Tractor Supply, they're 8 ft long. Easier for us to transport. We zip tied them to T-posts, then bent the tops down and zip tied the panels together across the top to make an arched trellis for pole beans, worked perfectly.
I didn't remember what a T-post clip was until I saw them being put on... Reminded me of mending fences on the dairy farm 10 years ago. Totally different life-time!
🌻❤️ We just added some cattle panels to our raised bed gardens. I have planted a ton of tomato plants as well this year and I am looking to use cattle cannel trellises as well for mine. Thanks for continuing to inspire me daily to push forward with gardening and my learning to grow my own food. We have a tour video comping soon maybe you can see how we are doing ours since your inspired us so much with our gardens. Love y'all ❤️🌻
I love the cattle panel trellises.
I now use my tomato cages for my peppers and eggplants. Love the painted T-posts. I have to do that!
I love the cattle fencing and have it through out my garden. If your starting out and money just isn't there ask at 2nd hand stores for crib springs. Again stake then 2 foot in the air. Most 2nd hand stores will give them to you free. I also use the crib bars and build trellis to plant on. I have in the past bought heirlooms took the seeds and planted them on these recyclables and had a beautiful garden. If you can't afford something just think of another way. If you can afford it cattle panels are number one in my garden.
Certainly cattle panels and tee post will work but there are many ways to trellis indeterminate tomatoes. Another is a steel cable suspended off of a 4” x4” on each end of the bed with strings and clips similar to the Mittleider method.
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My cherry tomatoes grew 30 feet and I filled a bucket to share at work every day. I confess, I didn't prune or trellis them. They volunteered and covered a lot of my back yard.
I grew grape tomatoes in 5' rebar and they grew up to the top, over, and back down to the ground. I'm not a fan of sweet, but the grape tomatoes are sweet and delicious.
It seems you must be topping your tomatoes if your indeterminates average 12 feet. I grow grapes on two horse shoe bent cow panels with wires between them. I was going to load up on cow panels this year, but you know how Covid mysteriously raised the price of everything. 25% price increase.
Bah Humbug!
Love your videos...and all that young wisdom!
As for tying them to the trellis, strips of old pantyhose works well. It's nice and stretchy and doesn't damage the stems or anything.
We used fencning here in NS for my arch and put a pvc pipe in the middle for support. Yes we put in 2 end posts to support, its year 2 and still works
Don't throw those sad little round tomato cages if you have them. They actually work great for my pepper plants! Going to try the cattle panel idea this year! Thx Jess!
Agree! And to keep random plants from getting stepped on.
Thanks for the Canadian shout out!!! I've found goat panel, not cattle panel... They're not quite as strong but a little cheaper. I bless YOU!!!
I love rewatching your videos. Refresh garden info!
I'm outside of Benton, AR and have about 1-2 acres of space to grow on. Just starting my "real" garden this year. So glad I found you in central AR!
The only thing I’ve found tomato cages good for is supporting smaller plants like peppers!
We need a sticker that's something about tomato cages tasting like disappointment 😂
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
Or a tomato cage laying on the ground with a massive plant that says “who thought this was a good idea?”
@@RootsandRefugeFarm hahaha love it
@@RootsandRefugeFarm So true Jess! My first year back into gardening I used them in smart pot containers and by the end of the season I had them tied to the fence, each other and posts I had to put in just to keep them from falling over.
I made an arched trellis out of the cement reinforcing mesh because i can't fit cattle panels in my car. I wiped off the rust and then spray painted with Rustoleum but the rust came back. But it still looks better than it was originally and so far its working great for peas and morning glories.
I'm so glad you guys made this video! Now I no longer need to argue or explain to the hubs how to help me do this in our garden! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! 🥰😘👩🌾🌱
Yeah, on the west coast of Canada cattle panels are around $60 (appx $48 USD) if you can even find them. Price of materials, not even to mention wood, is through the roof out here!
I've been trying to find something similar to cattle panels in my country, but I couldn't find anything. Now that you've mentioned rebar, I have a new avenue to research! :)
it is called concrete "re-mesh"
Yes Remesh. Same look as cattle panel without the high expedition costs. I even made an arched trellis from them.
Thank you for the Canadian tip. Cattle panels really are a crazy price up here.
Like you mentioned, for cost I have used the concrete wire in the same way you use the cattle panels. They do get surface rust but it doesn’t affect the strength or the longevity. I have used the same wire panels for 10 years. It’s not as pretty as cattle panels but it gets the job done.
I like the Cardinal I hear in the back round. Great vid!!
Jute string in my opinion is by far the best material to tie tomatoes with, its limp, has good knotting and dries quick.... A wet cloth tie will rot your tomato skin turn it black...
I still use cages for my determinant tomatoes and pepper plants. But this year it’s all about the tomato wall! 19 varieties of tomatoes 8 of which are determinant. The most I’ve ever grown before was 15 tomato plants in one season. Thank God for garden expansion years 😉 and thank you Jess for the confidence to make it happen!
Love your videos, please do one on perennial vegis and how to care for them if you can!
Thank you so much for letting me know about concrete rebar 🤗
I am trying this method for the first time this year Jess, thanks for Sharing.
I was so paranoid when you were at the edge of that cattle panel showing how to attach the tomato to it...I kept thinking you were going to lean too far forward and poke your eye 👁 I used pool noodles and sliced them up one side, and then zip tied them to the ends of my cattle panels to prevent cuts and pokes 😬
You are the Queen of tomatoes~Love the colourful T posts! Keep the world colourful-I can see this becoming popular in a lot of gardens.
What I love at the end of a hard day is adding your videos to my list to watch in the morning (time difference - UK) really sets me up for the day!
I also use cattle panels...I use the 8 footers, since they are so much easier for me to handle. I get the Handy Panels from Tractor Supply. I get alfalfa bales for my horses, and I save the strings, and they make a great cheap strong way to tie up your cattle panels to your t posts.
@@Katie,
You are definitely a true farmer when you tie fences and gates with twine strings. Lol My dad had me taught how to tie a gate probably before I could tie my shoes. I still tie things with a loop in it so it can be released with a simple tug. Send a like if you know the knot i am talking about. We always called it the gate knot on the farm.
@@markheintz1878 Oh yeah, I use that knot every day. Ive got a box full of string from my hay bales; so easy to just grab a handful of string to work in the garden.
I live an hour outside of Vancouver BC Canada and cattle panels here on average $60! It’s crazy
Right? I'm in Winnipeg and I'm so jealous the Americans get them so cheaply!
🤤 Wow!
$69 here on PEI! :(
Wow that is just crazy...I think since almost everyone here in the states received their stimulas checks the lack of business in 2020 made our business jack prices up on lumber, farm tools, feed ect.
@@wildwingsartstudioandhomes9124 Lumber has gone up in Canada as well
I love how you are so supportive of fellow content creators 💗 This is my second year of gardening and you encouraged me to start my garden last year. Now with your book in hand and a season of gardening under my belt I am looking forward to an even more fruitful year. Thanks for sharing your process.
-Kelly🇨🇦
Thank you for all the tips on plant spacing when using the cattle panels. First year that I'll be using this method and I was planning to use both sides to stagger. Thanks for steering me in the right direction! *also just ordered my husband the T post clip tool for installation 😄
Jess. Don’t use zip ties use metal concrete ties -instead of t post ties. Last forever and very effective
I use the store bought tomato cages for peppers, my maters get a five foot tall dog wire fence hoop...
Thank you so much Jess! And Miah!! this helps me alot!! Take care and God bless!!
I am binge watching your videos! I love the way you explain things!
Our cattle panels are $35 approximately in northern SD/southern ND. We are very rural. 100 miles from a Walmart, Menards, etc.
Yes, the rebar mesh is already rusted when you buy it at Loew's or Home Depot. However, here in Massachusetts, it costs $9.50, so that's cheap enough. ----- Google: Is rust bad for vegetable plants? Rust is iron oxide, which does not harm plants in moderate amounts, because it is not water soluble unless the soil ph is very low. In fact, iodized iron is what gives most red subsoils their color. Watering your plants with this water will not harm them at all.
I'm going to try more tomatoes this year like that
Good afternoon from Coastal Georgia!
I'm up to 8 cattle panel trellises, 3 of which are arches. 😁
We use stock fence with 4PVC pipe for trillis. T stack with fence for trelliis
Those tomato cages are terrible for tomatoes but are FANTASTIC for pepper plants.
Love the trellis! Just installed mine this past weekend. I cannot wait to sit and enjoy the beauty of the garden. Thank you for the inspiration!
I use the rebar panels for my small garden. They work great!
I AGREE WITH MIA!!! Best tool on the farm! But I roll it the other way but his way looks easier.. I also do the other side with the little hole in the tool...
Using cattle panels for the first time this season all because of you. ❤️🍅🍅🍅
I like stringing copper wire between the T posts and dangling copper "feeders" for each plant. Twist the plant onto the copper feeder as it grows.
I cannot explain how much a notification saying another video has posted does for my soul!!! Love you guys!
I did the 2 panels in 1 bed. I pruned, and it worked okay. Disease was not a problem (in Indiana), harvested well past August. Did tend to have vines wander back an forth between rows once they became so tall that removing suckers became a problem. I ran the panels east/west and those on the north side were slightly smaller.
I watch you with my boys. Ages 11 and 13. They love you all as much as I do. My 11 year old is ASD. We fell behind lately with life and have been binge watching all day trying to catch back up. He just asked why your hair is wet.🥰 So adorable. We hope to meet you all some day. Much love from Florida.♥️
This is beside the point, but Jess, that thumbnail image!! 😍😍 Such a striking snapshot of your beauty.
I like this kind of tralis
I share Miah's love of the clip bender! Last year I was installing a chicken run and I installed ONE clip, stopped and drove half an hour to TSC to get one.
So glad I'm going through your older vids! This one will help us a ton!!
Has anyone had any luck using bamboo trellis? We have some growing in the area and I’m tempted to go cut a bunch down and create my own natural looking trellis.
I grew on bamboo sticks last year. Some of the fruit made it sag in certain places but I could've secured them better. I used twine, but probably should've added another bamboo sticks long ways for more support. Looked pretty cool though and worked for that season.
Ohhh sooo happy you talk about Melo .. Quebec homestead!!! Im from quebec and we dont have many gardener on youtube for our climat
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Have you watched You Can’t Eat the grass RUclips channel they are in Canada but I don’t know where they are in location to you.
@@jodietirawi They are in British Columbia love Serons and Ian. We are in the east coast of Canada here in Quebec.
@@jodietirawi yes but she is exhausting.. i unsubscribed. :-(
Thank you for the link to your friends lol for alternative opt. For trellising here in Canada where cow panel fencing is to expensive
I use something similar, the 5x7 panels in Home Depot close to the concrete bags. They're meant to be buried in concrete, but they fit perfect in an 8' raised bed. I can't use cattle panels because my rows of raised beds are not level with each other, I have a sloped backyard so each individual bed is level, but they aren't level with each other. If I ever move I'm making sure the garden area is completely level because it's a pain to have to level each one individually!
Tomato Cages support like Disappointment 🤣
I just hung three cattle panel trellises today and I plan to put up 5 arched cattle panels tomorrow. Im so excited to garden this year with all the knowledge I have gained from watching your channel. Thanks for such good explanations.
I'm in Canada but I'm such a fan that I bought the panels (only three) - so very expensive but I love them! Got two for arches and they are the best. Every gardener that visits love them too!
A fun fact, most places will give you the t-post clips for free at the time of purchase of the t-post. Tractor Supply definitely does.
Good afternoon! Love this idea! Great video!
Brilliantly detailed as always Jess & Myah. In Australia our cattle panels are mesh panels (galvanised), priced for me at $80AU/panel - 1 metre x 6 metres. Still worth every cent. I have the birdies raised beds and have put my trellis on the other side of my arch. Yes there is a bit of mixing with the beans and the tomatoes, but not too much. Airlflow is still good. Thanks again xx
I’ve been using the string method with metal conduit to hang them from. Our first tomato bed) is still a locust and a cedar post from the property. Ten feet tall with holes drilled to support the upper conduit. For cucumbers, we drove in rebar, put the metal conduit over it and ran the same on top using 90° elbows and t’s to hold the top metal conduit. Inexpensive, strong and it lasts. We prune the indeterminate and sometimes use the greenhouse clips, but I’ve also just wrapped the vine around the strings once a week.
I use tomato cages upside-down for growing zucchini