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  • From: "Catherine S" <farmerwantabe AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] One more tomato trellis question
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:48:04 -0500

Last season I experimented with stacking, caging, and fencing. This season I'm fencing (weaving) all our tomatos. I had better looking vines and more tomatos with the fencing method, I believe it was because they weren't handled as much as the other got from tying etc. nor were they bunched up like in the cages, better air circulation. After asking other growers around here alot of them use the weave method mostly because it is less time consuming tying each plant. I put fence post about every 10 ft and a couple rebar stacks inbetween the post, I have about 4 to 5 plants between each post and rebar. I stabilize the row with wire across the top of each post.

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>From: Roger Weeks <rjweeks70 AT comcast.net> >Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> >To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org >Subject: [Market-farming] One more tomato trellis question >Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:38:10 -0700 > >Thanks to all of you who've suggested different tomato trellis >techniques. I wish I could afford the number of stock panels that I >would need for all my rows of tomatoes, but it's not cost effective >for me... > >One last question on the subject. I'm considering either doing the >stake and twine method, where you run twine between stakes, set >every other plant or so, starting 8-12" above the ground, and >progressivly "wrapping" the plant as it grows; or what I've seen >termed as the "english method" where you set heavier stakes 10-15' >apart, run heavy gauge wire at the top, reinforce the rows with guy >wire and stakes at the end, and tie a string to the wire to let the >tomatoes climb. > >Any comments or suggestions on which one of these is >easier/better/worse/awful? The second method surely means less >stake driving, but seems to require more plant training. > >Roger Weeks >_______________________________________________ >Market-farming mailing list >Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org >http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > >Get the list FAQ at: http://www.marketfarming.net/mflistfaq.htm


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