Yesterday morning we unloaded all the plants from the greenhouse back to their little spot under some trees, and removed all the vegetable plants in buckets from the shop and put them back in the garden.
We always struggle with staking our tomatoes. The best way we’ve found to do it is to drive a piece of rebar into the ground, then place a pvc pipe over it and tie the plants up to the pvc pipe. The plants grow so big and the wind blows so much that often, even with the rebar deep into the ground, the plants will pull the rebar/pvc pipe over or at least leave it leaning. And, with the pvc pipe being slick, often the ties will slip down and the tomato plants end up back on the ground.
With the tomatoes in the buckets, we lined them all up, Vince drove t-posts into the ground and attached strips of welded wire fencing.
I’ve already tied up the larger plants. I think this will work perfectly and . . no weeds and hopefully I can see snakes easily on the cardboard.
Let’s hope we have some good tomatoes this year.
Kathy Chiocca says
We drilled a hole through the PVC pipe near the top and ran the ties through that. It made the stake more stable and they didn’t lean over from the weight of the plants. I wish my plants were as big and mature as yours. Our season runs later and we have to beat the rain to harvest them.
Dottie says
Looks great!
Ranch Wife says
You two are sure getting a workout! Who needs a gym? Three cheers for no weeds or snake surprises!
Judy Laquidara says
And I’m sure you two are busy as can be also!
Ranch Wife says
It keeps us out of trouble…for the most part! 🙂
Nelle Coursey says
Smart move!
Susan Nixon says
We always have hope, don’t we? I have ONE tomato plant in a pot out front. We’ll see what happens. I think I have a little mini cage for it. It’s just cherry tomatoes, and it may not even thrive. It has one stem of 5 blooms right now.
Judy Laquidara says
If I could have only one, it would be a cherry tomato. Love those things. I usually pot a plant and keep it in the greenhouse during the winter. Going out in the cold to turn the heat on and water . . munching on those tomatoes was my reward but this past winter, I didn’t do it.