BROTHER BRIAN, JUST WATCHED YOUR VIDEO ABOUT HORN WORMS & TOMATOES. YOU ARE SOO FUNNY. I'M 60 YRS OLD STILL LAUGHING IN TEXAS. YOU ARE A GOD SEND BROTHER.
Phew! I just saw Brian’s videos from Jan 2020 & his aneurysm. Came straight to videos to check he is still here. So glad to find you here still giving out great info 🙏🏼🌻👍
Neat idea with the teepee/twine. I always do my indeterminate tomatoes in pots. I have a 6’ stake for each pot, and I tie one main growing stem to the stake. Once it gets to the top it is close to the end of my growing season anyway, so I chop off the top and force it to focus on ripening the fruit it has already set instead of more growth that’s just going to die in a frost. Works for me up here in the maritime northwest.
Thank you so much for this video, Brian! I am growing all of my tomatoes in containers and grow bags and have been stressing about how I’m going to trellis them.
I live at 5,000 ft above sea level in Montana. I use 3 8ft T-Posts driven in the ground with nob covers and run electric fence wire across the top. I put bamboo poles in the 6 containers and secure to the wire at the top. I secure the tomato plant to the bamboo pole with rubberized wires.
I've been growing tomatoes in huge pots next to a West facing 6 ft high cedar fence for many years. I train the plants up the fence vertically and then horizontally when they reach the top. In zone 5 the fence and plants can be covered with plastic or floating row cover to extend the season for a few weeks.
I've watched every video you have put out and I am starting my first garden this year so I will be implementing a lot of your techniques. I can't wait for the harvests. I live in zone 9b so I am learning what plants grow here and work best in this area. Who knew there was so much to learn other than plant seed, water it, harvest. Wow. Thank you for all your hard work you put into teaching us.
I have 48 tomatoes in grow bags that are in three rows. I used three t-post, two pieces of conduit and three PVC t's per row to build a rail. Then I hung the strings and attached them with plant ring clips. I wish I could post a pic to show you
I am growing indeterminate tomatoes in grow bags for the first time this year. Thank you for the trellis ideas! I had no ideas reserved for my Rutgers Tomato plant. I am so excited to try this!
LOL I just bought grow bags for my extra seedlings from my growing efforts this year. My plan was to do Florida weave but will continue watching. Edited to add that my grow bags will be placed on a row with poles on each end and the weave will go between all bags
OH THANK YOU BRIAN. WE FORGOT ABOUT PULLING OFF THAT SUCKER IN THE ARMPIT. RONALD JUST GOT A TILLER YESTERDAY. BUT WE GOT FLOODED WITH RAIN. SO PLANTS STILL IN SOLO CUPS. I PRAY THEY DON'T GET ROOT BOUND.
I grew my indeterminate cherry tomatoes last year using the cordon method in a fabric pot. My patio is small but I used a hook on the overhang patio above me and just moved the hook over when I needed to. This was my version of the method you use and it worked great! That tomato plant was at least 6 plus feet! I'm going to try this new method this year. So exciting! Thank you!
You’re videos are so helpful and a great teaching tool to help me teach my husband about gardening. (Why don’t men listen to their wives? But he’s all ears with you! 😀) He just installed a cattle panel in one of our beds, and zucchini is planted! Thank you again!
You are just the best. Can’t wait to try this method. I have a 3 month maybe 3 1/2 month growing season so don’t remember my tomatoes every getting 6 ft. We are getting snow again so it will be a while before I’m getting my plants outside. I am grateful that I have time to get my buckets ready. Thank you for another great one!!
I have containers from GrowBox, and bought the supports also, so that's what I'll be using. Last year one of my tomatoes in a whiskey barrel was ok in an extra tall tomato cage.
I grow everything in containers on my deck. I need to make more space for more plants in the sunny areas. I've used tomato cages for all tomatoes plus stakes. I haven't figured out a way to do different yet but with your videos I'm getting ideas for hubby to construct (or me if he doesn't get motivated soon. Thanks for your help & teaching!
I'm using 15 gallon pots this year. My Toms are deep planted and nearly at the top of their pots. I'm planning to make a heavy base, with left over 2x12 lumber, creating a box around my pots. Then, using lumber, I'm making an overhead trellis. I have a couple of your hooks arriving soon. I'm in Laguna Beach and enjoy a frost free climate.
All my tomatoes are in containers. All are indeterminate. Cherokee Purple, Better Boy, red cherry and yellow pear. Last year I grew them up a string after watching your video. This year I am trying a very tall trellis. I love your ideas!!
This was timely, Brian, thank you. I experiment. I grow in ground, in raised beds, in pots and in grow bags. I have 12 varieties going right now, some more types to sow and no idea where I am putting all of them 😑 But I can't help myself. I sow more than I need and am always surprised by how many come up and thrive. I'm giving seedlings away to anyone who wants them 😌
Just in time and just what I needed! Most of the tomato seeds germinated and grew into 16 tomato plants that I was wondering what in the heck to do with as my soil is still very poor! I may have a chance of harvesting tomatoes this year due to watching your gardening videos! Thank you!
So grateful for this. I think I’m going to do my tomatoes in containers again this year. I was hoping to find a way to use the hooks I purchased in containers. You granted my wish with the video ❤️🥰🍅
I've had success growing in different size grow bags especially with my tomatoes. Thank you for all your tips and information it has been very helpful to me.
Yay I just literally just made my trellis with 7 ft t post, conduit and pvc tees ordered a 20 pack hooks from your link and your recommended neem oil can’t wait to finish my square foot garden. Soooo wish I could show you pics. I’ve learned a ton from you and am determined to have a successful garden. I have 20 indeterminate tomato plants and I’m stringing it all up with your hooks will see how they do attached to the conduit. ❤️🤗😊
I saw a video you did before with a raised bed. I was so impressed with the idea I'm going to do it this year. The new video you will do will be a tremendous help! Thank you!
I trellis mine up cattle panels. I've found it works much better than any other method I've tried so far. I also have a cattle panel trellis arch they grow up.
Thank you for doing this. I could never figure this out before. Can’t wait for the upcoming video. While I try to find out some things on my own, stringing the tom plants isn’t one I could figure out. 👍
I’m growing them in pots and have attached 2 cattle panels length wise to t posts driven into the ground. Giving me 32 feet of trellises. I did buy the t post clips and raised them 2 feet off the ground.
What I did with mine was to run a stake from the top of one to the top of another one. I had a row of ten felt buckets with a stake running across the top of all the buckets. I was able to get the tomatoes to grow across the top and run string down and in between the buckets. Kinda looked like a trellis. It did the job.
Basically, I grow one indeterminate tomato and that’s my sweet grape tomatoes. In my container I use the tomato cages and I turn one upside down and the other right side up and wire them together to make about a 7 foot tall trellis. Works great for me.
I'm growing in self wicking tubs I made by cutting 55 gallon Barrels in half and putting empty milk jugs or drainage pipe in the bottom for a water reservoir. Only having to water them once every couple weeks so far. When it gets hot in the plants get big I will have to water maybe once a week. Saves water since it doesn't drain out the bottom
I have grown tomatoes in containers for years and use a Texas size cage like you showed but much more beefy. Tried the teepee method but not much luck.
I would also suggest once the tomatoe plant reached the top and turning the hook comes into play. Pay attention to the bottom layer of the plant. Some varieties still have leaves below and i recommend paying attention to avoid and disease buildups and pests.
I use the roller hooks hanging on a 9 gauge wire fastened to 2 T-posts. As the vine reaches the top, just roll out more line. I’m on season 3 using the same roller hooks. The line is UV resistant and has held up no problem.
Great video, Brian! I just today got the t-posts for putting in a trellis system over a grid of grow bags with tomatoes and honestly, I had to wrap my brain around your unraveling the hook/twine to gain space as opposed to raising the trellis and unraveling. That will really help me out, thanks for the tip!
I just put up a cattle panel trellis and will have 2 City Picker self watering beds with 2 plants each. So 8 plants going up the arched trellis. I grew 2 plants in 1 bed last year and it worked like a charm. So going big this year.
Hi Brian. This was very helpful. I transplanted my Sunsugar Cherry Tomatoes into 5 gallon buckets today because that was all I had. Hope it works and doesn’t stunt their growth too much by having such a small bucket. I am so excited for your in- ground tomato planting video. I can hardly wait. My San Marzano seedling babies are still looking good and will be in ground ready just in time. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR ENTHUSIASM & EXPERTISE!
I think you are a mind reader. Just received 40 10 gallon grow bags for tomato seedling starts. Will be placing them in a long cattle panel tunnel with 30% shade cloth on the west side of the tunnel. I was just thinking of how to trellis the plants as I'm done with cages from the garden centers (big hassle) AND BANG, you do this video just for me!!LOL Will tie the hay bale twine to 3/4 up the tunnel to the pot with the landscape staple. Should provide near a six foot grow area for 4 varieties 10 plants each.
I'm doing mine in growbags. I just posted my 'tomato army' in the facebook group the other day! I'm actually planning on doing the trellis method with t posts and either going to do conduit, or pvc. Having a fence put around my property in the next 2-3 weeks. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to build my new garden before the fence or not, so this year its growbags. but I'm pretty confident that by the time my tomatoes need to be supported, the fence should be done and they will be able to sit where i put them the rest of the season. I have 20 plants. if I went the bamboo stake route... that would be so many stakes! this way i should be able to do 3 or 4 t posts and save some money to build the garden of my dreams come fall.
I haven't had much luck with anything but cherry tomatoes. This year I'm determined to have a good tomato harvest, so I went all in with this method. I built an arbor over my raised bed this winter to hold the hooks. Thank you for making these available in quantities that make sense for gardeners.
I really like your presentations, subscribed! (edit: I just watched your Apr 7th 2020 vid after writing all this :) Here is a method to try if you have say 3 or 4 tomato pots. It is a blend of post and wire support. The latter being a commercial greenhouse technique. One strong post is required for each plant. When inserted firmly into each tomato pot they should be as tall as you comfortably want to reach to be able to lift the string hook off the support, unwind the hook 1/2 a turn and to slide the hook along while the string is holding up a loaded tomato plant. You place each pot so that each post is approximately 45cm to 60cm apart in a circular arrangement. Lash horizontal poles between the tops of each successive vertical pole to prevent the poles from leaning over when the plant is hanging in between from a wire tied off to each post. Alternatively if your horizontal poles have a means to and can support the heavily laden plant hook you need not string wire between the vertical poles, just hang them from the horizontals. Now the whole purpose of this structure is so that as your tomato plants reach the top of the string at the hook you unwind a half or full turn of string from the hook and move the hooks either clockwise or counter clockwise around the structure. You don't want too tight of a circle or a vine might snap as it goes round and around the three or four posts. Be sure to trim off the lower leaves so that they never touch the ground and potentially rot or get diseased. Also allows for air flow through the vine stems. In a greenhouse I worked at the support wires were at 2.4M and 3M but unless you can safely get up to that height without potentially off your 5th floor balcony I suggested you keep to some height you can reach while firmly standing on the deck!
Growing 7 varieties all indeterminate in containers & grow bags have two double stemmed on furring strips the rest still need to be transplanted just bought the hooks will do a few using the lowering method 🤞🏽.
Going to grow in my Earthboxes. I live next to the open space, so gophers are always an issue. Earthboxes have an optional trellis that goes over the center of the box. For my tomatoes I am not planning to use those. I have 10’ garden stakes that I put PVC Ts on top and run 8’ metal conduit along the tops. I can then start doing the whole “drop and shift” as the plants grow higher. I have a different version of the tomato hooks, (with the little roller), to keep them going all thru the season.
Great timing for the video👏👏Thank you 🙏 I'm a first time gardener and I'm growing tomatoes in grow bags. I didn't wanted to invest in the big trellis for in ground tomatoes and was wondering what trellis to use 🤔
I’m growing one in a big pot with a titan tall tomato cage from gardeners supply. It’s growing below a balcony. If it gets taller than the cage I’ll train it along the balcony railing.
This is my question also. I wanted to use fabric pots this year for once and wonder what size pot to use. I've heard different sizes from 5 gallon to 10 gallon. So which one 🤷🏾♂️
@@countrykilo I’ve seen other UA-camr videos in the past and the bigger the pot the bigger the harvest, so you’ll most likely get more tomatoes with the 10 gallon.
I've done several varieties of tomatoes in large shrub pots (from the recycling dumpster!), cordoned up a single metal rod in the center. By securing a crosspiece of wood, side to side, slightly below the rim, and then placing the rod through a hole drilled in it's center, it is easily held in place with the help of the soil.
Last year I grew some in 5 gallon buckets. I tied the bottom of the string to an anchor in the bottom third of the bucket (handle of a jug). I tied the top of the string to my pergola and secured the plant along the string with tomato clips. The cherry tomatoes grew quite tall. I did not have hooks, but since I saw your previous video, instead, I knew to leave extra length at the top and just moved it over, tying to a new piece of lattice for extra string to grow on. I also have one section of my raised bed garden that I built a structure over with hail proof mesh. Over there I just clip the strings wherever it is convenient. My cherry tomatoes in the raised beds outgrew the ones in the self wicking buckets astronomically. I think I will use the buckets for tomatillos this time, and plant my other tomatoes in the ground. But, the difference is the buckets won't be self wicking, they will be irrigated, leaving room for more soil where the water jugs were before.
I’ve got most of my toms in grow bags on concrete. I wanted to do Brian’s lower & lean trellis system. I came up with after finding shepherds hook bases at Joanns. I’ll post a photo on the FB group as I can’t include a picture in the UA-cam Comments. I have high hopes!
Great info! Am growing Tomatoes 🍅 presently, Beefsteaks I think. Most outside, one in a Large pot out growing the tomato cage, two months over three feet tall. Gotta add your suggestion! Thanks
I’m trying the grow bags for the first time this year. I’m just not able to do a huge garden this year. That’s for the trellis info. I have 2 tomato plants in a 10 gal grow bag. I’m thinking about taking one out. What do you think? Thank Bryan and happy gardening?
I have been gardening for three years now and I use the prune and stake method I get about a 6 foot bamboo stake and just keep tieing them to it. I make sure to prune the chutes or suckers like you call them
I grew 3 different cherry tomatoes in 7 gallon Pots and used tomato cages and then bamboo pole once they out grew the caged.. they got to be almost 8 feet tall. Only challenge I found was that I had to water daily, sometimes twice a day.
BROTHER BRIAN, JUST WATCHED YOUR VIDEO ABOUT HORN WORMS & TOMATOES. YOU ARE SOO FUNNY. I'M 60 YRS OLD STILL LAUGHING IN TEXAS. YOU ARE A GOD SEND BROTHER.
Lol. Thank you Melinda!
Amen! Another Texan here that follows Brian's advice. He's amazing!
Ah I’ve been waiting for this video since you hinted at it in your last tomato video! Thanks for considering us container gardeners 😊
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Phew! I just saw Brian’s videos from Jan 2020 & his aneurysm. Came straight to videos to check he is still here. So glad to find you here still giving out great info 🙏🏼🌻👍
Neat idea with the teepee/twine. I always do my indeterminate tomatoes in pots. I have a 6’ stake for each pot, and I tie one main growing stem to the stake. Once it gets to the top it is close to the end of my growing season anyway, so I chop off the top and force it to focus on ripening the fruit it has already set instead of more growth that’s just going to die in a frost. Works for me up here in the maritime northwest.
Thank you so much for this video, Brian! I am growing all of my tomatoes in containers and grow bags and have been stressing about how I’m going to trellis them.
I’m using 10 and 15 gallon grow bags. They are doing pretty good.
Growing in containers pertain to a lot of people. Good to see you addressing this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I live at 5,000 ft above sea level in Montana. I use 3 8ft T-Posts driven in the ground with nob covers and run electric fence wire across the top. I put bamboo poles in the 6 containers and secure to the wire at the top. I secure the tomato plant to the bamboo pole with rubberized wires.
Love this!! I am growing all my tomatoes in grow bags.
Perfect!
I've been growing tomatoes in huge pots next to a West facing 6 ft high cedar fence for many years. I train the plants up the fence vertically and then horizontally when they reach the top. In zone 5 the fence and plants can be covered with plastic or floating row cover to extend the season for a few weeks.
Great!
I've watched every video you have put out and I am starting my first garden this year so I will be implementing a lot of your techniques. I can't wait for the harvests. I live in zone 9b so I am learning what plants grow here and work best in this area. Who knew there was so much to learn other than plant seed, water it, harvest. Wow. Thank you for all your hard work you put into teaching us.
You’re the best Brian. Hands down the best Organic Gardner and teacher. Keep up the great work.
I have 48 tomatoes in grow bags that are in three rows. I used three t-post, two pieces of conduit and three PVC t's per row to build a rail. Then I hung the strings and attached them with plant ring clips. I wish I could post a pic to show you
I wish you could post a pic, too. It sounds cool plus probably relatively inexpensive.
I am growing indeterminate tomatoes in grow bags for the first time this year. Thank you for the trellis ideas! I had no ideas reserved for my Rutgers Tomato plant. I am so excited to try this!
What size gallon grow bags did you use?
7 gallon grow bag and the tomatoes grew beautifully.
LOL I just bought grow bags for my extra seedlings from my growing efforts this year. My plan was to do Florida weave but will continue watching. Edited to add that my grow bags will be placed on a row with poles on each end and the weave will go between all bags
Sounds good!
I'm growing mine up a chain link fence, then adding bamboo poles to use the Florida weave when they get taller.
Happy Planting. 🌱🌱
Wow...iv done the 3 stalks BF but not the string in the center...i luv it👍👍👍THANQ💚💚💚🍎those hooks are GENIUS😁👍
OH THANK YOU BRIAN. WE FORGOT ABOUT PULLING OFF THAT SUCKER IN THE ARMPIT. RONALD JUST GOT A TILLER YESTERDAY. BUT WE GOT FLOODED WITH RAIN. SO PLANTS STILL IN SOLO CUPS. I PRAY THEY DON'T GET ROOT BOUND.
They'll probably be ok
I grew my indeterminate cherry tomatoes last year using the cordon method in a fabric pot. My patio is small but I used a hook on the overhang patio above me and just moved the hook over when I needed to. This was my version of the method you use and it worked great! That tomato plant was at least 6 plus feet! I'm going to try this new method this year. So exciting! Thank you!
You’re videos are so helpful and a great teaching tool to help me teach my husband about gardening. (Why don’t men listen to their wives? But he’s all ears with you! 😀)
He just installed a cattle panel in one of our beds, and zucchini is planted!
Thank you again!
You are just the best. Can’t wait to try this method. I have a 3 month maybe 3 1/2 month growing season so don’t remember my tomatoes every getting 6 ft. We are getting snow again so it will be a while before I’m getting my plants outside. I am grateful that I have time to get my buckets ready. Thank you for another great one!!
I'm tomatoes growing in containers. I tried pinching last year but then I got lazy. Good info. TFS! 👍😀🌻🌱😍🌼🌷😎
Your method is really the best. I used it last year and it was the first year my cherry tomatoes didn’t take over my entire growing space. Thanks!!!
I have containers from GrowBox, and bought the supports also, so that's what I'll be using. Last year one of my tomatoes in a whiskey barrel was ok in an extra tall tomato cage.
Wow !! Needed this 🙌
I grow everything in containers on my deck. I need to make more space for more plants in the sunny areas. I've used tomato cages for all tomatoes plus stakes. I haven't figured out a way to do different yet but with your videos I'm getting ideas for hubby to construct (or me if he doesn't get motivated soon. Thanks for your help & teaching!
I'm using 15 gallon pots this year. My Toms are deep planted and nearly at the top of their pots. I'm planning to make a heavy base, with left over 2x12 lumber, creating a box around my pots. Then, using lumber, I'm making an overhead trellis. I have a couple of your hooks arriving soon. I'm in Laguna Beach and enjoy a frost free climate.
Sounds good!
All my tomatoes are in containers. All are indeterminate. Cherokee Purple, Better Boy, red cherry and yellow pear. Last year I grew them up a string after watching your video. This year I am trying a very tall trellis. I love your ideas!!
What size containers do you use for each plant?
@@debbyd5729 mostly 5 gallon buckets, some a bit larger. One plant per pot.
This was timely, Brian, thank you. I experiment. I grow in ground, in raised beds, in pots and in grow bags. I have 12 varieties going right now, some more types to sow and no idea where I am putting all of them 😑
But I can't help myself. I sow more than I need and am always surprised by how many come up and thrive. I'm giving seedlings away to anyone who wants them 😌
Sounds like a good problem to have 🙂 That's nice of you to share your seedlings with others
Growing tomatos in regular pots and grow bags in Sothwest Florida.
Used a five gallon pot in the greenhouse and paracord wrap attached to the wood roof supports. Grew marzanos like this.
Just in time and just what I needed! Most of the tomato seeds germinated and grew into 16 tomato plants that I was wondering what in the heck to do with as my soil is still very poor! I may have a chance of harvesting tomatoes this year due to watching your gardening videos! Thank you!
So grateful for this. I think I’m going to do my tomatoes in containers again this year. I was hoping to find a way to use the hooks I purchased in containers. You granted my wish with the video ❤️🥰🍅
Just for you! 😁❤
Just for you! 😁❤
Love this idea. I am happy i keep the sticks , now i know how and for what to use them. Thank you Brian 🤗😊
Great!
Hello Dear Friend! Awesome video! Have a beautiful weekend! 👍 688
I've had success growing in different size grow bags especially with my tomatoes. Thank you for all your tips and information it has been very helpful to me.
Was waiting for your video 🍅🍅🍅 🥰
🍅🍅🍅 the tomates in evry garden
Yay I just literally just made my trellis with 7 ft t post, conduit and pvc tees ordered a 20 pack hooks from your link and your recommended neem oil can’t wait to finish my square foot garden.
Soooo wish I could show you pics. I’ve learned a ton from you and am determined to have a successful garden. I have 20 indeterminate tomato plants and I’m stringing it all up with your hooks will see how they do attached to the conduit. ❤️🤗😊
Learning, pots and going to use hydro pots.
I saw a video you did before with a raised bed. I was so impressed with the idea I'm going to do it this year. The new video you will do will be a tremendous help! Thank you!
I grew indeterminate tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets with string trelles's last year and it worked great
What did you use to hold up the string? Teepee trellis like he shows here or something else?
Thanks Brian! I love this idea. It will help me grow more tomato varieties than I have been able to in the past! Thanks!
That's a neat setup for the tomatoes
I use a very similar method. I don't use a teepee as top support, I have a thick metal bar running across a metal stand on each side.
very good thank you
Growing most of mine in the 20 gallon grow bags
I trellis mine up cattle panels. I've found it works much better than any other method I've tried so far. I also have a cattle panel trellis arch they grow up.
Thank you for doing this. I could never figure this out before. Can’t wait for the upcoming video. While I try to find out some things on my own, stringing the tom plants isn’t one I could figure out. 👍
You'll love it this way!
Ingenious with the teepee and string
Glad to learn another way to trellis tomatoes. Good idea Brian!
Thanks
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Bamboo is a good idea. I use grille or spiral stick. It works nice
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I’m growing them in pots and have attached 2 cattle panels length wise to t posts driven into the ground. Giving me 32 feet of trellises. I did buy the t post clips and raised them 2 feet off the ground.
Tomatohooks are the best! Really love to use them.
What I did with mine was to run a stake from the top of one to the top of another one. I had a row of ten felt buckets with a stake running across the top of all the buckets. I was able to get the tomatoes to grow across the top and run string down and in between the buckets. Kinda looked like a trellis. It did the job.
Works!
That was creative!
Basically, I grow one indeterminate tomato and that’s my sweet grape tomatoes. In my container I use the tomato cages and I turn one upside down and the other right side up and wire them together to make about a 7 foot tall trellis. Works great for me.
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I'm growing in self wicking tubs I made by cutting 55 gallon Barrels in half and putting empty milk jugs or drainage pipe in the bottom for a water reservoir. Only having to water them once every couple weeks so far. When it gets hot in the plants get big I will have to water maybe once a week. Saves water since it doesn't drain out the bottom
I have grown tomatoes in containers for years and use a Texas size cage like you showed but much more beefy. Tried the teepee method but not much luck.
I would also suggest once the tomatoe plant reached the top and turning the hook comes into play. Pay attention to the bottom layer of the plant. Some varieties still have leaves below and i recommend paying attention to avoid and disease buildups and pests.
I use the roller hooks hanging on a 9 gauge wire fastened to 2 T-posts. As the vine reaches the top, just roll out more line. I’m on season 3 using the same roller hooks. The line is UV resistant and has held up no problem.
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Great video, Brian! I just today got the t-posts for putting in a trellis system over a grid of grow bags with tomatoes and honestly, I had to wrap my brain around your unraveling the hook/twine to gain space as opposed to raising the trellis and unraveling. That will really help me out, thanks for the tip!
Please please tell us a lot about container gardening. Planting okras, cucumbers in containers.
Thank you
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A can't wait for your next video on Sweet Potato I am hoping to plant my slips end if thus month they should be ready by then
Thanks for sharing
It's out now!
@@NextLevelGardening I set the slips early March they didn't make it so I start over two weeks ago
I just put up a cattle panel trellis and will have 2 City Picker self watering beds with 2 plants each. So 8 plants going up the arched trellis. I grew 2 plants in 1 bed last year and it worked like a charm. So going big this year.
Got a nice plant in a big pot,storm knocked it down but the big tomato cage I have on it saved it from breaking,yay
Hi Brian. This was very helpful. I transplanted my Sunsugar Cherry Tomatoes into 5 gallon buckets today because that was all I had. Hope it works and doesn’t stunt their growth too much by having such a small bucket. I am so excited for your in- ground tomato planting video. I can hardly wait. My San Marzano seedling babies are still looking good and will be in ground ready just in time. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR ENTHUSIASM & EXPERTISE!
You're welcome!
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We tied two large baskets together end to end with wire ties, that gave us 10 feet of cage and we got 8 foot cherry tomatoes before frost.
I think you are a mind reader. Just received 40 10 gallon grow bags for tomato seedling starts. Will be placing them in a long cattle panel tunnel with 30% shade cloth on the west side of the tunnel. I was just thinking of how to trellis the plants as I'm done with cages from the garden centers (big hassle) AND BANG, you do this video just for me!!LOL Will tie the hay bale twine to 3/4 up the tunnel to the pot with the landscape staple. Should provide near a six foot grow area for 4 varieties 10 plants each.
I just planted two bee steak tomato plants in 25 gallon grow bags a week ago
I'm doing mine in growbags. I just posted my 'tomato army' in the facebook group the other day! I'm actually planning on doing the trellis method with t posts and either going to do conduit, or pvc. Having a fence put around my property in the next 2-3 weeks. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to build my new garden before the fence or not, so this year its growbags. but I'm pretty confident that by the time my tomatoes need to be supported, the fence should be done and they will be able to sit where i put them the rest of the season. I have 20 plants. if I went the bamboo stake route... that would be so many stakes! this way i should be able to do 3 or 4 t posts and save some money to build the garden of my dreams come fall.
You use 15 gal grow bags. Support with 7’ high concrete mesh surrounding the bag.
I haven't had much luck with anything but cherry tomatoes. This year I'm determined to have a good tomato harvest, so I went all in with this method. I built an arbor over my raised bed this winter to hold the hooks. Thank you for making these available in quantities that make sense for gardeners.
Sounds great! Good luck!
Sounds great! Good luck!
I really like your presentations, subscribed! (edit: I just watched your Apr 7th 2020 vid after writing all this :)
Here is a method to try if you have say 3 or 4 tomato pots. It is a blend of post and wire support. The latter being a commercial greenhouse technique. One strong post is required for each plant. When inserted firmly into each tomato pot they should be as tall as you comfortably want to reach to be able to lift the string hook off the support, unwind the hook 1/2 a turn and to slide the hook along while the string is holding up a loaded tomato plant. You place each pot so that each post is approximately 45cm to 60cm apart in a circular arrangement. Lash horizontal poles between the tops of each successive vertical pole to prevent the poles from leaning over when the plant is hanging in between from a wire tied off to each post. Alternatively if your horizontal poles have a means to and can support the heavily laden plant hook you need not string wire between the vertical poles, just hang them from the horizontals. Now the whole purpose of this structure is so that as your tomato plants reach the top of the string at the hook you unwind a half or full turn of string from the hook and move the hooks either clockwise or counter clockwise around the structure. You don't want too tight of a circle or a vine might snap as it goes round and around the three or four posts. Be sure to trim off the lower leaves so that they never touch the ground and potentially rot or get diseased. Also allows for air flow through the vine stems. In a greenhouse I worked at the support wires were at 2.4M and 3M but unless you can safely get up to that height without potentially off your 5th floor balcony I suggested you keep to some height you can reach while firmly standing on the deck!
I love your garden! Im trying several new varieties of tomatoes this year 🤞🤞🤞
Super excited! Got some hooks ordered!!!
Great!
I’ve been waiting for this also!
Need to do better this season!
Thank you !!
Growing 7 varieties all indeterminate in containers & grow bags have two double stemmed on furring strips the rest still need to be transplanted just bought the hooks will do a few using the lowering method 🤞🏽.
Just got done building my trellis for my 8×3 raised bed can't wait to see how high my tomatoes get this year
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As always fantastic video. Ordered my tomato hooks today. I am excited to try your method! Thank you!
You'll love it!
Going to grow in my Earthboxes. I live next to the open space, so gophers are always an issue. Earthboxes have an optional trellis that goes over the center of the box. For my tomatoes I am not planning to use those. I have 10’ garden stakes that I put PVC Ts on top and run 8’ metal conduit along the tops. I can then start doing the whole “drop and shift” as the plants grow higher. I have a different version of the tomato hooks, (with the little roller), to keep them going all thru the season.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
You're welcome
Tomatoes on my list this year to grow for 2nd year. Great tips!!
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Great timing for the video👏👏Thank you 🙏
I'm a first time gardener and I'm growing tomatoes in grow bags. I didn't wanted to invest in the big trellis for in ground tomatoes and was wondering what trellis to use 🤔
I’m growing one in a big pot with a titan tall tomato cage from gardeners supply. It’s growing below a balcony. If it gets taller than the cage I’ll train it along the balcony railing.
what size pot do you recommend for the tomato plants, and what size are you using in the video? : )
This is my question also. I wanted to use fabric pots this year for once and wonder what size pot to use. I've heard different sizes from 5 gallon to 10 gallon. So which one 🤷🏾♂️
I’m guessing that pots diameter is anywhere 16-20”?
@@countrykilo I’ve seen other UA-camr videos in the past and the bigger the pot the bigger the harvest, so you’ll most likely get more tomatoes with the 10 gallon.
go as big as you can...better results that way if you also water and fertilize regularily...so they grow tomatoes not just LEAVES...lol
I’ve had good success with 5-6 gal nursery containers or any container
I use a T post inside a cage and I put it next to a patio post so between all three it works pretty well.
Great tips thank you!
I've done several varieties of tomatoes in large shrub pots (from the recycling dumpster!), cordoned up a single metal rod in the center. By securing a crosspiece of wood, side to side, slightly below the rim, and then placing the rod through a hole drilled in it's center, it is easily held in place with the help of the soil.
Sounds good!
I’d like to see the plant in action. Very interesting.
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Last year I grew some in 5 gallon buckets. I tied the bottom of the string to an anchor in the bottom third of the bucket (handle of a jug). I tied the top of the string to my pergola and secured the plant along the string with tomato clips. The cherry tomatoes grew quite tall. I did not have hooks, but since I saw your previous video, instead, I knew to leave extra length at the top and just moved it over, tying to a new piece of lattice for extra string to grow on.
I also have one section of my raised bed garden that I built a structure over with hail proof mesh. Over there I just clip the strings wherever it is convenient. My cherry tomatoes in the raised beds outgrew the ones in the self wicking buckets astronomically. I think I will use the buckets for tomatillos this time, and plant my other tomatoes in the ground. But, the difference is the buckets won't be self wicking, they will be irrigated, leaving room for more soil where the water jugs were before.
Sounds good!
What is the minimum container depth for Indeterminates? I always thought they had a root structure that can extend 2 ft. or more.
I’ve got most of my toms in grow bags on concrete. I wanted to do Brian’s lower & lean trellis system. I came up with after finding shepherds hook bases at Joanns. I’ll post a photo on the FB group as I can’t include a picture in the UA-cam Comments. I have high hopes!
Great info! Am growing Tomatoes 🍅 presently, Beefsteaks I think. Most outside, one in a Large pot out growing the tomato cage, two months over three feet tall. Gotta add your suggestion! Thanks
Great!
Great tips, thanks!
I’m trying the grow bags for the first time this year. I’m just not able to do a huge garden this year. That’s for the trellis info. I have 2 tomato plants in a 10 gal grow bag. I’m thinking about taking one out. What do you think? Thank Bryan and happy gardening?
I use one of those 8ft green poles. But I like your idea better.
I have been gardening for three years now and I use the prune and stake method I get about a 6 foot bamboo stake and just keep tieing them to it. I make sure to prune the chutes or suckers like you call them
Another great idea...thanks!
You're welcome
I am growing indeterminate tomatoes in growing bags and got these at Amazon 6:29
I grow in a large pot with that cage but I need to work on my next level soon
I grew 3 different cherry tomatoes in 7 gallon Pots and used tomato cages and then bamboo pole once they out grew the caged.. they got to be almost 8 feet tall. Only challenge I found was that I had to water daily, sometimes twice a day.
I am in Zone 5B (ontario Canada). So I have a shorter growing season.