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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 tube of what's a 2x2 now and if you come over

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here and you can see I ran some, this is just
fence wire that I had left over, ran it through

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and torqued it down but surprisingly stout. Not
going to fall off this year, maybe never if I left it

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

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consumption job but it's gonna stay up
there. And then I had these plants laying on

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

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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

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

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hopefully I can reuse this string next year but
I've got a nice little roll of it, it's waterproof

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by the way. Then it comes down and I
secured it here and then I just sort of

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wrap the plant around it. I can unwrap it
so you can sort of see what's going on

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Basically it started out like that and
you just proceed to wrap it carefully

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So that trains the tomato, it starts the tomato by
training it. It comes up, it's going to come up this

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string all summer and the other thing I like about
this particular setup is it's pretty easy to deal

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with and now I've got a, I'm 5'9", so this is
this is close to six feet and for everybody that

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goes to Walmart or Lowe's or someplace and looks
at those cages and they say I'd buy it but I wish

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it was taller. This is taller and when it gets
above this and these will, I think I'll just

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trim them at the top to keep them from just going
everywhere but this is going to be good I think

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What kind of string here did you use and what kind
of string do you recommend? Do you have anything

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you'd change about how you did this? Let me just
go up and see what it is. This is my storage unit

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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. I'm mildly concerned that it
will be too thin and start to cut into the plant

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

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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 I think 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