I grew all on the Hortonova trellis: pickling cucumbers, green beans, sugar baby watermelon, buttercup squash and Early Girl, Big Boy and San Marzano tomatoes. My Big Boys have been the the best out of the tomatoes.
Travis What I use on cattle panels is a tape gun. I have tried weaving but it gets real un wheelie once they get bigger. The tape gun allows to plants to still grow but keeps them going up instead of sideways like what normal happens with weaving and you end up with a lot less broke stems. Thanks for the extremely quick shipment on my order. I placed a pretty big order Sunday and it was shipped Monday and it had your name on it so thanks.
Very nice! So here's a question I was thinking while seeing your cucumbers. Do you sell your produce from this garden or is it for your food? If for food, I'd love to hear what y'all do for preserving or using so many cukes at once for, and same for any other things you're growing! I'm hoping it's for your food so you might have some good recipes or preservation techniques to share. :) Take care!
We sell some and eat some. I wish I had more time for preserving, but with two little boys we just don't. So we just enjoy the produce fresh as we harvest it. Since we're growing food year round, there's always something tasty to eat from the garden.
Hey Travis, great video as usual. A little off subject but... you briefly went over the determinate tomato rows you have going but wondered if you planted any of the Red Snapper this year?
Put another run of trellis on the other side of the row and let the plants grow up between the two runs of trellis. Works good with cattle panels. Don’t know for sure about the hortonova mesh.
I did that and on the bottom. Next year I’ll skip the bottom but add a middle rope. I placed mine too far apart so I had to add some support for my tomatoes. My Big Boy tomatoes have done great
🍅🥒🍅Beautiful plants🍅🥒🍅Where do you buy your seeds from? We bought plants and so pricey here in Arizona🌵We have two growing seasons for some vegetables.
It just depends on how heavy the plants are. With cucumbers and pole beans, I usually put them 8-10' apart. I put them a little closer with these tomatoes knowing that the plant biomass will be a little heavier.
What do you do with so many cherry tomatoes? We can't grow lettuce in this southern heat and humidity in the south in the summer months when all those tomatoes are ripe. I can see having several plants for fresh eating, but not as many as the slicers and canning tomatoes. Do you can them and are they even good for canning for sauces etc.? I lost several hybrids to a dog gone rabbit and am going to have to buy some plants. I grew all my tomatoes this year from my own seeds/transplants, then lost some to critters. I may very well have to buy the famous Slocomd tomatoes for canning this year. They always have a great crop of slicers and paste tomatoes. No better canning tomatoes anywhere than the Slocomb tomato festival in Slocomb Alabama.
Yeah I see why yours sag. You put the post in first. I place one post, then pull the hortanova till I come to an area where I want the next post. There I place the post so that the vertical cord of the netting is just behind the post nubs, so that it's tight all the way down the fence post. I keep doing that all the way down the line.
Since this is a trial run, why not weave some and tie others and see what works best? I am new at gardening and have a quick question that you probably think is a no brainer; I have one small plot and I am fixin to cover ground with your black plastic, concerned with the layout. When planting in rows, should the rows be oriented north/south or east/west, or does it even matter. Thanks for all the videos and information provided, and as always Go Gators.😊
I have found that it doesn't really matter, although you will find some folks that swear by planting in a particular direction. I have some plots that are planted N to S and others E to W, and I can't tell a difference in production.
@@gardeningwithhoss thanks for the reply! I am going to order and try soon with my regular indeterminate tomato varieties. We have 3 50ft rows planted this year. Thanks for all your videos!
I like my indeterminates too. Two Italian Goliath varieties and Sweet Chelsea cherry from Totally Tomatoes. They get to top of my 5ft cage by July and then start flowing back down the sides for some Sept and Oct tomatoes. This year I'm thinking Florida weave on 8 ft T-post and add a 3ft piece of bamboo on top of that later.
Down here tomatoes usually don't make it past July. The heat and humidity will zap them in the middle of summer. So we don't have to worry about them getting too tall.
@@gardeningwithhoss Oh! That's important context. I have a shorter season than you overall, but here in Olympia, WA / the PNW our indeterminates keep growing taller & taller.
I grew all on the Hortonova trellis: pickling cucumbers, green beans, sugar baby watermelon, buttercup squash and Early Girl, Big Boy and San Marzano tomatoes. My Big Boys have been the the best out of the tomatoes.
Travis What I use on cattle panels is a tape gun. I have tried weaving but it gets real un wheelie once they get bigger. The tape gun allows to plants to still grow but keeps them going up instead of sideways like what normal happens with weaving and you end up with a lot less broke stems. Thanks for the extremely quick shipment on my order. I placed a pretty big order Sunday and it was shipped Monday and it had your name on it so thanks.
Thanks for your order!
Very nice! So here's a question I was thinking while seeing your cucumbers. Do you sell your produce from this garden or is it for your food? If for food, I'd love to hear what y'all do for preserving or using so many cukes at once for, and same for any other things you're growing! I'm hoping it's for your food so you might have some good recipes or preservation techniques to share. :) Take care!
We sell some and eat some. I wish I had more time for preserving, but with two little boys we just don't. So we just enjoy the produce fresh as we harvest it. Since we're growing food year round, there's always something tasty to eat from the garden.
Hey Travis, great video as usual. A little off subject but... you briefly went over the determinate tomato rows you have going but wondered if you planted any of the Red Snapper this year?
Yes we did and they're doing well. When we panned over the established tomato plot, the Red Snappers are on the 4th row from the left.
Put another run of trellis on the other side of the row and let the plants grow up between the two runs of trellis. Works good with cattle panels. Don’t know for sure about the hortonova mesh.
That's a good Idea!!
Thanks for sharing!
i have done something like this but i used tomato clips to hold the branches on
5:03 you wanna run a 1/4 inch rope through the top of your trellis net for more support.
I did that and on the bottom. Next year I’ll skip the bottom but add a middle rope. I placed mine too far apart so I had to add some support for my tomatoes. My Big Boy tomatoes have done great
What a good looking tomato garden! Do you ever do the egg on the hole...or is that just an old wives tail?
No egg in the hole or fish in the hole for us. Those things can take quite a while to break down in the soil and become available to the plant.
@@gardeningwithhoss 🤣😂
🍅🥒🍅Beautiful plants🍅🥒🍅Where do you buy your seeds from? We bought plants and so pricey here in Arizona🌵We have two growing seasons for some vegetables.
We carry a wide variety of vegetable seeds on our site: hosstools.com/premium-garden-seeds/
Almost everything we grow, we have on the site.
@@gardeningwithhoss wow!🤣😂😅
Nice video
Did this work with the indeterminate tomato?
Yes it does
I'm down in north Carolina and the sweetie did good until it got hot the blight was bad on this variety
That happens with almost all tomatoes once it gets really hot down here. But usually we can get some decent harvests before that happens.
@@gardeningwithhoss yes it's unfortunate ❤️😃🙏
Travis, how far apart do you put your posts with that trellis???
It just depends on how heavy the plants are. With cucumbers and pole beans, I usually put them 8-10' apart. I put them a little closer with these tomatoes knowing that the plant biomass will be a little heavier.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks for the pointers Travis.
So would you consider this netting as disposable, if not would cleaning out dead foliage at the end of the season be somewhat tedious?
We don't reuse it. I presume you could, but not sure it would be worth the time to remove the foliage and try to do so.
@@gardeningwithhoss That makes more sense for sure. Thanks for the reply.
Could you put the trellis on both sides of the tomatoes? On one side you could start at the bottom and string it up as the plants grow.
You could, but you'd need another set of t-posts likely.
What do you do with so many cherry tomatoes? We can't grow lettuce in this southern heat and humidity in the south in the summer months when all those tomatoes are ripe. I can see having several plants for fresh eating, but not as many as the slicers and canning tomatoes. Do you can them and are they even good for canning for sauces etc.? I lost several hybrids to a dog gone rabbit and am going to have to buy some plants. I grew all my tomatoes this year from my own seeds/transplants, then lost some to critters. I may very well have to buy the famous Slocomd tomatoes for canning this year. They always have a great crop of slicers and paste tomatoes. No better canning tomatoes anywhere than the Slocomb tomato festival in Slocomb Alabama.
My two year old can eat quite a few. So we'll enjoy many of them and put the rest in our weekly vegetable bags that we sell.
Was wondering if this needs to be taken down each year? Does it only last for 1 growing season?
Either, we have done both
hey travis any idea when everything getting restocked on the website?
It's going to be a slow process. Many of the manufacturers are out, so that means we could be out for a little while.
Hoss Tools thanks man. Loving the double wheel joe and drip tape. Hopefully it back in stock during grow season would love to get a seeder next !
Yeah I see why yours sag. You put the post in first. I place one post, then pull the hortanova till I come to an area where I want the next post. There I place the post so that the vertical cord of the netting is just behind the post nubs, so that it's tight all the way down the fence post. I keep doing that all the way down the line.
Makes sense, but how do you use a t-post driver if the netting is already on the post?
Hoss Tools we use a mallet hammer.
Since this is a trial run, why not weave some and tie others and see what works best? I am new at gardening and have a quick question that you probably think is a no brainer; I have one small plot and I am fixin to cover ground with your black plastic, concerned with the layout. When planting in rows, should the rows be oriented north/south or east/west, or does it even matter. Thanks for all the videos and information provided, and as always Go Gators.😊
I have found that it doesn't really matter, although you will find some folks that swear by planting in a particular direction. I have some plots that are planted N to S and others E to W, and I can't tell a difference in production.
How did the trellis end up holding up?
great
@@gardeningwithhoss aww yay!! Ordered netting from y'all, can't wait to try it out.
Thank you for responding so quickly, as I just put in the t-posts!
Did this work for you? I haven't seen an update video, but I've been looking.
Yes it does
@@gardeningwithhoss thanks for the reply! I am going to order and try soon with my regular indeterminate tomato varieties. We have 3 50ft rows planted this year. Thanks for all your videos!
Done this with tomatoes, just support the top of the netting
What will you do when the indeterminate is get to the top of those 6ft post? Man grow to 10 ft and keep going never stop growing
I like my indeterminates too. Two Italian Goliath varieties and Sweet Chelsea cherry from Totally Tomatoes. They get to top of my 5ft cage by July and then start flowing back down the sides for some Sept and Oct tomatoes. This year I'm thinking Florida weave on 8 ft T-post and add a 3ft piece of bamboo on top of that later.
Down here tomatoes usually don't make it past July. The heat and humidity will zap them in the middle of summer. So we don't have to worry about them getting too tall.
@@gardeningwithhoss Oh! That's important context. I have a shorter season than you overall, but here in Olympia, WA / the PNW our indeterminates keep growing taller & taller.
Why not put trellis on the other side and sandwich the tomato plants in between them?
Cause then we'd have to install more posts. 😂
@@gardeningwithhoss who cares! Lol
Exactly!
Got an update?
Worked like a charm. Those tomatoes are long gone now, as they don't make it through July down here.