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Hey there folks, Kathy and Brett here with
Tomato Dirt and today we're talking about

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do-it-yourself tomato trellises. So first of all,
honey, can you explain to us why you trellised

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tomatoes this year? Yeah, sure. I mean I've never
really done, actually I haven't done this before

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that I recall, but I'm running out of cages,
okay? I ended up with six extra plants that

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someone requested near and dear to me and I had
a few poles left so I thought well let's just try

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this and then I went in the barn and I had a 2x4
pressure treated in there, cut it in half on the

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table saw and just proceeded to sort of figure
out how to get it to mount up here. I drilled a

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hole, you can come down here, drilled a hole in
the 2x2 now and if you come over here and you can

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see I ran some, this is just fence wire that I had
left over, shrank it through and torqued it down but

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surprisingly stout. Not going to fall off this
year, maybe never if I left it, and did that

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on all three posts. It's certainly not
a high-end nor a high time consumption

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job but it's going to stay up there. And
then I had these plants laying on the ground

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and I finally decided I have to do
something. So how I did it is I put a little

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I put a little metal pin down here, a little
u-bracket, they're sort of laying everywhere

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and just to give myself a base, tied a string,
really I started at the top but either way you tie

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a string at the top, I drilled a hole through here
too, just tie a little knot, hopefully I can reuse

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this string next year but I've got a nice little
roll of it. It's waterproof by the way. Then it

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comes down and I secured it here and then I just
then I just sort of wrap the plant around it. I

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can unwrap it so you can sort of see what's
going on. Basically it started out like that

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and you just proceed to wrap it carefully.
So that trains the tomato, I'm training it

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It's going to come up this string all summer
and the other thing I like about this particular

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setup is it's pretty easy to deal with
and now I've got a, I'm 5'9 so this is

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this is close to six feet and for everybody that
goes to Walmart or Lowe's or someplace and looks

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at those cages and they say I'd buy it but I wish
it was taller, this is taller. And when it gets

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above this and these will, I think I'll just trim
them at the top to keep them from just going

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everywhere but this is going to be good I think.
What kind of string here did you use and what

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kind of string do you recommend? Do you have
anything you'd change about how you did this

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This is my storage unit. I got it, I got it from Amazon. It's
basically, it's basically nylon twine or nylon. It's a little

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thinner than I wanted and I'm mildly concerned
that it will be too thin and start to cut into

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the plant but almost anything would work if you
have but it's certainly strong enough and I got

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plenty of it so I'm also going to use it I think
maybe on the pole beans to run around to let them

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not here but elsewhere. So at least the plants
look good now. They're off the ground and it's a

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we'll see how it does with the suckers and
whatnot. I'm not sure about the suckers on this

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sort of scenario but we'll find out. Anything
you'd like to do differently or do better next

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time or are you pretty satisfied so far? With
this? Yes. I think it's going to be okay and

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yeah I think it's gonna be fine.
Great. Happy trellising. Bye