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  • From: "Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai" <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Staking Tomato's
  • Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:48:32 -0800


Sounds quite a bit faster than the weave we attempted last year. I've heard one farmer claim problems when he didn't tie off at every steak - twine loosening and plants laying down - did you experience this? Did you ever have to go back and tighten the twine if so how? Also what type of twine did you use to prevent stretching? Jacqueline


From: sunnfarm AT netscape.net
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:14:17 -0500

You start by spacing tomato plants 18-24" appart in the row then put a steak between every second plant, twine comes in 4 pound boxes that clip to your belt, the pvc stick is a 12"-20" piece of 1/2" pvc pipe used as an extension of your arm and as a tool to weave the twine around the stakes, the twine comes out of the box thru your pvc pipe and is tied to the end row stake then you walk down the row reeling out twine and looping it around each stake until you come to the end of the row then walk up the other side doing the same until you get back to the start, the plants stand suspended between the twine, you dont ever tie the plants just the stakes and as the plants get taller you go around again up to four times on determinate plants...
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.






"Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > with the Florida Weave method, it takes me about two hours to tie an acre
> > using a pvc stick and belt mounted twine box...
> What is the Florida weave method, what do you do with the pvc stick and
> where did you get a belt mounted twine box?  I do t-posts every 8' or so and
> wrap both sides of the plants.  It takes me a couple of hours to do just a
> few rows of tomatoes and I usually managed to trip myself several times with
> the twine.  Maybe we need to produce a video on tomato staking for those of
> us who are imagination-challenged.
>
> I'm putting in around 600 plants this year, a very sharp reduction from the
> 1500+ of last year.  300 of them are the determinates that we grow for the
> salsa project and they will be grown under the concrete reinforcing wire
> that's just bowed over the row.  It worked well last year on these small
> plants - easy picking and good support.  But I'm intrigued by the various
> ideas for staking the indeterminates.  In year's past I've planted two rows
> of tomatoes in a 36" bed with a row of t-posts down the center that the
> twine is tied to as mentioned above.  I'm thinking that I'm going to try a
> single row this year and see if it improves production but will probably
> continue to do the weaving since I have a considerable amount of t-posts and
> a box of twine from Johnny's is reasonable.
>
> So what's the Florida weave?
>
> joan
> windwalker farm
> ottawa, kansas
>
>
>
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