Florida Weave Tomato Trellis From Setup To Tear Down | Full Season Guide
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- This video will show you the FULL lifespan of a tomato Florida Weave setup. That includes how to plant the tomatoes, how to place t posts, supporting tomatoes, pruning, tying up, and even the full teardown of the entire system. This guide should cover everything you need to know to grow tomatoes on the Florida weave trellis!
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I love the complete lifecycle format of this video. I know it’s a lot of work and planning. Keep up the great work!
Hard to believe he just started less than a few years ago, huh? I was watching an older vid and he was like 'I just started doing this 18 months ago'. 🤯 I half grew up on a farm and didn't get this advanced til I was about 25. 🤣
I’ll second this comment. So many videos are “here’s how you do ____” with no follow up. This one has all the info to really help figure out if this system is right for you. Thanks!
Omg…. Take a shovel… turn it upside down and put the sharp edge under a bump on the post. Now push away the T post. Then.. pull the T post towards you…. Push away, pull towards…push away pull towards…. The shovel uses each bump and ratchets itself right out of the ground. You don’t need to try and loosen it first… just ratchet it out in 30 seconds and never break a sweat. It always works.. never fails !!! And that my friend is the million dollar tip!!! You will be amazed at how great it works. You can bring a hush over a crowd of farmers when they see me do this. LOL. T posts are really hard to remove any other way. I’ve spent a LONG time digging one out.. haha. Million dollar invention….
You should make a video. Seriously this is good advice.
For next tomato season, to make your life easier get 2 tools. A fence post driver or pounder, and a T post puller. Both make working with t posts so much easier.
That’s just what I was thinking!
i have a pounder. Any reason not to leave posts in the ground?
@@lydiaahubbell8545 my tiller makes a terrible racquet when I go over a tpost.
Excellent reference video! My mind is blown by the fact that you've only had your garden a few short years and yet you've been able to create so much abundance for yourself and so much knowledge and inspiration for us. Thanks!
Thank you for the hard work of this video! So rare to see a video focused on the entire life cycle of a plant
This was amazing, love the full lifecycle video format. Yes, as someone who edits videos I KNOW the work and also the amount of patience, half a year for 1 video is a lot, but the content is excellent 👍
These season long videos are so helpful. Thank you so much!
Meanwhile, I’m just amazed that soil exists that you could even start getting the post in without great force. I live with soil compacted by construction, and getting posts in the ground next to my raised beds is work!
With already 25 tomato plants going in my garden in Central Florida this is definitely my next experiment!
All hail the garden hermit! Thanks for these tips 🍅
I'm telling you, do a review on those klein tin snips/electrician's scissors. It's gold Jacques! It's GOLD!
I am going to have to get some for real
It's gold, Jerry, GOLD! 😆
I Florida weave my peas too in fact I didn't even realize the system I used has a name 😂. For peas I can use a cotton yarn and bamboo sticks and it works great 👍
Craft yarn can be very economical!
I've been growing tomatoes for many years. It's nice to learn something I don't know about how to grow them, and you had several useful ideas. Thank you.
There is a cool tool for pulling T-Posts from the ground. It really speeds up the process & saves your back.
Yeah I guess I am cheap haha, I should eventually invest in post hammer and t post puller.
I've never actually had an issue with jute rope causing injury to the plants. They're my go to since it's natural and lasts multiple years. I'm in a cold climate so maybe the lack of sun makes it last longer here. I also tightly wind the plant around the jute so that could be why they don't have the slack to rub against the rope and cause injury
This was great...I love videos that show the beginning to end. Thanks Jacques!
Perfect timing! Just watching your last video on this. Thanks for such detail.
Great info on topping the plants to force ripening! Will definitely do that this fall. Any tomatoes that are green when I pull the plants will become fermented pickles. Delicious!
Or fried green tomatoes 😋
This video is EXCELLENT. Learned a lot! Great Work Jacques!
Thank you so much for showing the full growing season! This was a huge help as every other video I've seen only shows the initial set up
Great instructions! You always do such a great job teaching and explaining!!
Nice to see the entire life cycle and care of the tomato!
Thanks for this video! It's my first season growing a non container variety of tomatoes and I learned a ton
I loved this video! Thank you for taking the time to do the follow ups in the same video. I wish your videos were longer! My favorite kind of tv :)
Wow Jacques! Thanks so much for this very useful and informative video! I am going to do the basket weave this year. The tomato cages didn’t work to well for me last year. Keep up the great work!
This was an excellent video. Thanks for the great information. It’s nice to be able to see beginning to end.
Jacques! You're a genius! You gave a solution for my jungle to be ! Definitely will going to try this method. Thank you!
Considering how often you drive t-posts, you might consider getting a t-post driver. They’re WAY easier to use than a hammer, and you can drive the posts deeper. They won’t budge once they’re in the ground. Just a thought.
I really enjoyed that you went through the entire process I was actually thinking how I'd like if you guys did that.
Very well explained. Very in depth. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, this a a great primer on handling & understanding your indeterminate toms. TY!! I’m trying the Florida weave for the first time this season.
WOW, talk about start to finish! I appreciate that you took the whole season for this video. New subscriber.
Gotta love Jacques in the garden!
Thank you! This is the best and most thorough Florida weave demonstration I've seen yet. Much appreciated.
Excellent demo and explanation, Jacques! I appreciated that you showed the whole process from beginning to end, even how to cut it down. These details are immensely helpful! I had wanted to do cattle panels, but have no truck to haul them home. This weave method is doable for me. Thx for a well thought out video! I really like your channel.
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you. 🙌🙌🙌
I love the way he says "remember"❤
My season is short, so I do have to top my plants late season. Our winds are so strong and the hot sun at my elevation is intense. So, I hang mine vertically in a covered hoop tunnel to protect them from the elements with shade cloth and a poly.
I always end up with a lot of green tomatoes at the end of Sept. So when I cut mine at the base, I just move the whole plant, still attached to the vertical string, clips, and hook, and hang it in my sunroom. I just stick the bottom of the stems in a bucket of water until they ripen. I also remove all the leaves before bringing them in. I had 25 more pounds of San Marzano tomatoes ripen the first year. The hook, string, and clips are all reusable.
I do use the Florida weave to keep my peppers upright, though. Works great! I can protect them from the elements differently because they are much shorter.
This sounds really interesting. Is it possible to add photos here? If you have time, I would love to see the whole plant still attached to the string, clips, and hook :-)
I also live here in San Diego, down near the boarder (San Ysidro) and really enjoyed your indepth information on constructing and maintaining the Florida weave. Between you and The Epic Gardener I'm able to grow more than I thought I could. Thanks for taking the time to put this in a video format! Much better seeing than just reading up on this procedure. Looking forward to your next video.
Best video I've seen on youtube. Thanks!
Great job on a great video. Very helpful, & informative. 😁
This video seems very thorough, and made this seem very doable. I am no longer intimidated by the idea of growing tomatoes! Thank you 😊
Thanks for this video. I've seen several that show the first weave, but none that have shown it on mature fruiting plants. Makes me more confident in trying the method this year.
This was an incredible video! Thank you so much!
You are a very good teacher. I always learn a lot from you.
This will be my first garden this year. I am going to give tomatoes a try.
Amazing! Tomatoes are so worth it fresh out of the garden. Try starting with 1 large slicing tomato and 1 cherry to get a feel for it! Too many tomatoes can get overwhelming at the start but becomes second nature in no time!
Great video! Very well done and I'm sure the added effort of completing the life cycle in one video will get you more views. Subscribing now.
Fantastic, Ive got about 50 tomato plants I just planted and was dreading going to find some stakes in the forest ( we do it old school here in Poland ). This will cut down the work by more than half! Happy harvests.
I am from Fl. but live in Costa Rica and can only find that Poli Plastic down here and the best way I have found is to burn it with a lighter instead of cutting it. It stays together and you wont have that problem any more. Love the vlogs. PURA VIDA🌴
Thank you Jacques, great info.
Nice video, thanks for the tips
If you have a farm supply store or Tractor Supply store, put a T-post puller on your Christmas list. Makes pulling up T-post a 2 second breeze! Great Video, enjoyed. Problem I had using basket weave was the plants got away from me and there was so much follage it compacted way too much folliage between the strings. I may try this one more time this year as planting indeterminate tomatoes so I will prune them a bit.
you have convinced me to try it only instead of Florida Weave im calling it Bulgarian Weave
👏👏 I am here for it haha
If you have access to willow, hazel, or other very bendy branches, a few more uprights and a very loose wattle-style weave also works really well for tomato, pea, bean, eggplant, okra, and similar wandery plants.
Exactly what I needed to see as my tomatoes are at about 15 inches!
Man Jacque can’t wait for my college semester to be over & start planting all my peppers & tomatoes
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4:11 For the poly string you can melt the ends for a couple seconds with a lighter. I wait until it’s still pliable but not super hot and then mush the melted ends together and it won’t fray as much. I do it to the cut end of the roll as well.
Your job is great brother ❤
Great lesson.
Looking forward to trying Forida weave this coming season! We plant our tomatoes in central Florida in the early fall months. What type of twine did you end up choosing g after the experiment, the poly or the cotton? Thanks Jacques, for your great content and informative videos!!
Sweet info on the tomato life cycle. I'm just getting ready to start planting my peppers and tomato plants into the ground. This year we are not doing shishito peppers, we had a major harvest on them last year. my husband and I are sick of them lol 🤐. We 're doing lemon citrus and brown jalapeno, padron, korean dark green and datil. Of course we will also be doing the usual poblano and serrano. My hubby said he has a death wish with chiles this year. Happy gardening Jacques and all my fellow gardeners.
I grew a Datil last year and quite liked it! Nice list!
Thank you sensei 🙏
Thanks, Jacques!
Great video. I have topped my tomatoes to get them to ripen up before frost. Man, I like your hammer, but you need a maul for those posts. I have red clay. A maul is essential here. 😄
I'm doing my tomatoes this way this year.
Great video!
Yo being in central Florida I have to give this a try thanks bro
I used this method after watching some of your first videos explaining it and it really did me wonders. It was my first year planting and I was so excited about how prolific my tomato’s were. I’d like to do this structure again. Could I plant the same kinds of tomatoes in the same plot of land?
You can but it will eventually build up disease and causes issues, I planted here back to back three times and eventually root knot nematodes moved in and now I can't grow tomatoes there for a while :(
If you can get an old fashioned jack like I had in my El Camino or a High Lift jack you can get a small piece of chain to wrap around the Tpost and just jack the post out of the ground trust me it's a lot easier then the wiggle and pull method😂
That does sound a lot easier, and truth be told some of these required serious excavation haha
I love the full picture this provides! Can someone tell me what the pretty red flower is at 17:44?
I would only make one adjustment to your weave. If you look at 6:36 on the right side of the screen where the twine meets the post and compare that with the opposite side you will notice there is a large gap. If you were to swap sides one more time after your last plant and before the post you would create an axis point where the strings come together, providing more support. Otherwise it looks great.
Ah yeah I noticed that too. I always tie them together at the ends as well good call
For sure that is good catch, sometimes I remember to do it and other times I don't
Thanks so much for the Florida Weave video. I have some great tomato cages made from Cattle panels but could use a less expensive way to support a few more plants. I will try this.
I was wondering why you pulled your T-posts instead of just leaving them for another use? Once ours are in the ground (clay based soil in the SE) that's where they will live the remainder of their life.😊
Thanks also for the tip about the "old" tomato leaves. We have a long growing season here so that explains a lot.
I am enjoying your channel.
I pulled them because I want to rotate where I plant the tomatoes this year otherwise there is no reason or need to! Glad to have been of help!
Is there a reason you have to remove the posts after the season is over? Thanks for the explanation, I'm thinking of doing this method this years!
HAVE YOU SEEN THE TPOST DRIVER REMOVAL ? you can use the driver to put in and hep you remove the t post..... im going to try it this year!!
My dad used to use a lighter to burn the frayed ends of the poly string. Made it much more secure and I don’t think it ever unraveled!
Look at the tomato system, next level gardening. Im not a gardener, but it may be easier
In retrospect, would you have used organic twine or the poly “tomato” twine?
In Virginia clay I use a digging bar to get the T posts started and then use the bar's flat end to tamp down the earth around the installed post. Otherwise I would have to hammer the post after the first 3-5 inches.
I’m so jealous you have tomatoes in the ground already 😅
Im trying a taut knot with the flordia weave so i can add tension or loosen the tension on the fly when ever i need too its a very simple knot
Great video, especially for a new gardener, but I've got questions!
First, do you re-use the T posts with the rusted bottoms?
Second, before completely tearing out the aged tomato plants, do you save some seedlings for Spring planting- OR do you start over from scratch?
We have two growing seasons in Central Texas, so the cycles are a bit different. I'm wondering just how long a tomato plant can last!
Lastly, do you have any variety suggestions that do best with your weaving method?
Thank you in advance! 💚
Jacques, the natural cotton twine will lose tension in a couple of weeks; that's why the synthetic is used.
I do have a couple of questions for you. What was the kind ,variety of tomatoes you have planted in this video other than Black Crim and Cherry type? Also how much more pruning did you do as they were growing up? Did you allow all suckers to grow or just a few on each plant. When I tried this method I had too much foliage and felt like I was compacting the foliage too much but then the growth actually got away from me. I was growing Homestead determinate variety and had one Better boy Hybrid which I pruned and did the best as it reached the top of my weave and then cascaded back down toward the ground. I'm growing all Better boy Hybrids this season coming up and plan to prune them some to contain folliage but will definitely try this method again.
I really like using cattle panels for tomato supports. No plastic, which is very important to me.
Oh, man! That’s a good deep garden! Wow!
Jacques, I can’t stand the feel of that plastic line. But thanks for the warning on the hemp. If I get as far as tomatoes (!) , I’ll go with cotton twine. If a cat gets caught in it, s/he can likely chew thru it.
This is great! I’m afraid this technique wouldn’t work for us. I have to check all the leaves daily for horn worm eggs on our tomatoes here in Mississippi. 😢
I wonder if this would work on my bery small stand of corn.
Hi Jacque, wondering if you could flush out determinant, semi-determinant, and indeterminate tomatoes in 2024. Love the videos!
I'll try to remember to include it when I do my tomato lineup video!
I have a feeling the brandywine cherry had a determinate nature or the main stim was trimmed.
You need to go to tractor supply or a similar store and get a t -post puller. Sure saves your back .
Please please please get a post pounder to safely pound those posts in. Your soil is amazing that you can push that post in so far by hand.
I am so cheap I keep looking at it for 40 bucks and thinking it's not worth it, but this year I am going for it!
His ground is so good ... using a post pounder might actually bury the entire post. 😂🤣
@@jacquesinthegarden Also invest in a post puller. Yeah I know they're pricey, but they're a godsend to your hands, shoulders, and back.
Edited to add
Don't forget the t post puller plate. Otherwise getting the hook to stay on while you pull can be challenging.
I tried a few different tomato support experiments and I liked the Florida weave for the first half of the season 😆 it just became too unruly and floppy. I saw a while ago you did a trellis net for a few things, did you try it on tomatoes? If so, did you like it?
I've tried the other method of single stem but I'm not really impressed with the result so I'll give this a go this year (and good to know I don't need to buy $70 post driver)
The driver makes life a lot easier but its not strictly required!
Do you have to remove the t-posts if you plan on planting tomatoes there in the next season?
How would you compare this to the drop line type of trellis with those clips? Do you think one method is superior to another in particular circumstances?
Buying a dedicated Manual T post Lifter would make life a lot easier. If you have enough to justify one :)
I think its finally time haha
You should use your foot on the flat part when you push it in
You can burn the ends of the polly twine to keep them together
Is this method better than the vertical grow method?
Why not use the little hooks and holes in the post to help with tension?
I think that the tomato plant that didn’t work out for you, the brandy wine cherry, is the tomato that you let set fruit early and didn’t pull it off, so it might’ve just been a smaller plant from that energy being used too early
I use stakes and canes, they're free pretty much
Jacques, do you think you could use the florida weave to trellis cucumbers?
I think it would be worse off, they have fragile stems that break easily and unlike tomatoes they actually have tendrils. The tendrils allow them to literally climb up whereas tomatoes have no way of grabbing onto something which is why this works well for them.
@@jacquesinthegarden Makes sense. Thanks.
@@jacquesinthegarden I use the t posts to trellis cucumbers directly! They grab those little hooks and even trellis throughout the holes!