How to tie tall tomatoes in 2 stalk - my way
SCHEME OF SUSPENSION OF TALL TOMATOES
Many summer residents love to grow tall tomatoes, appreciating them for their increased resistance to diseases and for excellent productivity.
Only one problem with them: the garter of the bushes, especially when growing a stem in 2-3. I want to offer an adaptation to ordinary trellis-crates, which can greatly facilitate the care of plants.
However, at first you still have to tinker, but then everything goes like clockwork.
I made rings (see Fig. 1) with a diameter of about 80 mm (maybe more) from thick wire, and I did not press the edges of the segments tightly together, leaving about 15-20 mm gaps in the rings. For what? And in order to plant tomato stems in them. Then, metal plates of no more than 2-3 mm thick were welded to these rings (Fig. 2). I scored slats with a cross section of 25 × 30 mm on the sawmill and attached strips with rings to them with screws (Fig. 3).
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After the experiments, I came to the conclusion that their best placement would be as follows: the lowermost ring should be attached at a distance of about 400 mm from the edge of the rails, and the rest should be spaced 350 mm apart.
And at the very top ends of the rails, I attached iron plates with a length of 220 mm and a cross section of about 2 mm, which were bent down at a right angle so that all these structures could be hooked onto the tomato grids installed on the bed.
It would seem that all these slats are completely superfluous and useless, but this is not so: tomato stems can be easily and quickly planted in the slot of the rings, and then they can easily grow at least up to 2,5 m in height.
And in this case, the bushes are completely safe - you have to try very hard to break their stems. As for the rails with rings, since they are removable, they can easily be removed in the autumn and put away in the barn for the winter. And you can make the rings themselves removable (Fig. 4).
© Author: V.N.DUBROVSKY
You can build trellises for tall and powerful tomato bushes from almost any material if desired. But it turns out that it’s much better ... to tie them together! In this case, even knitting needles are not needed.
I will share with readers of the magazine the experience of fixing tall tomatoes in a greenhouse. A lot has been written about how to prepare soil for tomato seedlings, about planting it and caring for adult plants, but how to tie up tomatoes (especially tall ones that are already grown, probably, almost all summer residents), there is enough material few. I remember one article in which the author shared his experience in knitting trellis nets from threads obtained from loose sugar bags. I tried it and came to the conclusion that such a net turns out to be very thin and can hardly withstand bushes strewn with ripening tomatoes. And I decided to weave more reliable nets.
For the source material, I took all the unnecessary things that have served my age, cutting them into ribbons about 4 cm wide, which I wound into tangles of such a size that it was easy to hold in my hand. I rummaged in the barn, and I saw a finished frame of 2 × 1 m rails. The thickness of the rails was about 4 mm - that’s what we need. I put the frame on the bottom, stuffed on one side of the top slats of cloves 4 cm long every 10 cm and started to weave.
I took a ball, made a loop at the tip of the tape, put it on the extreme nail and, holding the tape, made loop-like “yarn-twigs” on the rest of the nails until it reached the edge of the rail (see. Fig.). Then, turning the ball into the frame with her right hand (she held the tape with her left), she made a knot at the nearest loop and went on to the next loop. When I got to the middle of the rail (i.e., tied about half a meter), I picked up the finished net, put it on nails and continued to knit until I got the length 2 m. I took off the net, rolled it up and started the next one. Within 10 days, I knitted 13 grids.
Now about how I fixed them in the greenhouse. I have a size of 10 × 3 m, and it fits three beds 70 cm wide. In the middle of each, I dug old buckets 2 meters apart from each other, then alternately poured them with cement and stuck in the center the wooden posts that were before treated with vitriol from decay.
When the solution was set, I connected the columns on top with slats and then drove four nails into each at an equal distance from each other. And I got the frames on which I began to pull the mesh. First, I fastened them to the upper rails, tightly tightened the shaft and alternately clung to the nails on the posts. And at the very bottom I fixed the nets with hooks made of wire.
Planted seedlings every 50 cm and brought out bushes in three stems. It turned out that it was very convenient to distribute them on such knitted trellises, and the plants really liked them. Now I always use such nets and stopped complaining about crops.
© Author: Elena GEYKO. Sukhoi Log, Sverdlovsk Region
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We have a large family, so we plant a lot at the summer cottage. This also applies to tomatoes, which we all love very much. When the bushes grow, they need to be tied so as not to fall. It is quite long, tiring. So I came up with a simple and quick garter.
Tomatoes are always planted in double rows. Along each row, from two sides I drive in pegs at a distance of about 1, 5 m. I drive them close to the bushes. Then, on each side, I stretch between the pegs a strong tape. sometimes even soft wire somewhere 50 cm from the ground. As the tomatoes grow, I pull the second line, higher. If the tomatoes are very tall, then I make the third line. As a result, the tomatoes stand evenly, like soldiers in the ranks. Only sometimes a little "walk" along the line.
Such a garter, among other things, is good because it fixes the bushes without injuring them. And before, when each bush was tied to a peg, it happened that with a strong wind the plants broke at the garter point.
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Nadezhda Ivanovna KUTS:
- This year I tried a new method for tomato garter. When planting seedlings in a hole, she laid the end of the string twisted into a loop, left the rest on the surface of the bed. When it came time to tie the plants, wrapped the free end of the string around the trunk and tied it to the trellis. Now I will always do so - very convenient.
And this season I conducted an experiment. I deduced that if you dilute an 1 aspirin tablet in a bucket of water and pour tomatoes with this solution, they will be more resistant to all kinds of viruses. Maybe this is so. But the weather this summer was already very contrasting. As a result, despite the treatment, my plants became ill with cladosporiosis.
I had to save them with 1% solution of copper sulfate: I sprayed the leaves every ten days until the fruits began to form. It helped!