How To support Growing Tomato Plants

There are many options for supporting tomato plants in your garden. Gardener Peter Richards shows several methods he has tried and talks about what he likes and does not like about each one. He says that the traditional wire tomato cages do not work, instead you need a sturdier structure. He talks about and shows the pros and cons of heavy tomato cages, the Florida weave, livestock panel platform, tying the plants to a pole and tying them up with string. His personal favorite is to prune the tomatoes into a vine and use string to tie them up. He says this method makes it so you don’t need to spray fungicides nearly as often or at all and the plant will stay blight free for most of the year.

0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - Problems with Tomato Cages
1:03 - Tomato Tower with Cattle Panel Method
2:00 - Indeterminate vs. Determinate Tomato Plants
3:05 - Florida Weave Method
4:35 - Platform Method
6:12 - Pole Method
7:39 - Vine Method (for blight-free organic tomatoes)

Tomato twine for Florida weave, or vine: https://amzn.to/3JesxxM (Amazon affiliate link)
Everything else is best purchased at your local nursery or farm supply store.

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