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- From: "David Tannen" <david AT centerville.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Tomato training
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:48:01 -0500
I like the idea of this, but I am having trouble getting the correct
picture. Do you have a website with a drawing? Perhaps you could
contact me via email, david AT centerville.net. Thanks.
David
Over Fork Over Farm
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bill AT farmerbill.downhomecountry.info
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:10 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato training
rjweeks70 AT comcast.net wrote:
> I wanted to poll the list and see what sort of tomato training
everyone does.
I get 15' cattle panels @ about $15 per panel and cut them into pieces
with bolt cutters, with 2 horizontal stays per piece. This gives about 8
15' pieces per panel @ roughly $2 apiece. I drive 5'-9' T-posts
depending on whether I'm trellising peas or indeterminate tomatoes/ pole
beans, with 3 posts per trellis and using the 2 end posts to support the
2 adjoining pieces. This gives a very stable trellis that should last
for my lifetime, easy to move and costing about 50 cents a foot first
year, free after that. The pieces store flat in a small area, although
mine wind up staying put until they're needed or in the way. We've had
15 loaded tomato plants hanging from one trellis with no sagging. I
either hang nylon netting from the stays for cucumbers, or run twine
between the stays and a bottom piece of twine for tomatoes/pole beans
and run the plants up the twine. You've got to prune the tomatoes until
midseason though. 3 miles of baler twine for $22 is cheap and stringing
it goes fast. Last year I tried double rows of tomatoes hanging from a
central trellis with 5' between trellises, T-tape until the rains
started, and using mulch for weed control. We got 17" of rain in central
Ohio in August/September, and we need to try it again. Double rows of
pole beans did great though. We had 500 tomato plants last year.
> What do you like about your method of training? What don't you like?
I like being able to reuse the trellises, multi-functional, no sagging,
tomatoes seem healthy with close spacings, easy to pick. Dislikes would
be time spent pruning and initial stringing up. I use these on my
blackberries and grapes as well.
--
Bill Huhman
South-Central Ohio
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[Market-farming] Tomato training,
rjweeks70, 04/20/2004
- RE: [Market-farming] Tomato training, Marie Kamphefner, 04/20/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato training, Tom at Limerock, 04/21/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato training,
bill, 04/21/2004
- RE: [Market-farming] Tomato training, David Tannen, 04/21/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato training, Jay Atkerson, 04/21/2004
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