What is the best, easiest, or cheapest way to support tomato plants?
Try pcs of scrape wood for stakes twine from hardware store cheapest i know of. have u saw prices of tomato's
Reply:This year i bought 100 feet of twine for like $5 and bought some long 1''x2''x8' sticks and cut them in half. Then I staked the sticks every 3 tomato plants and used twine to run all around the plants in rows to give them support. So far it has worked excellent and they are producing tomatos too. cheaply done but the thing is requires lot of labor and have to do it every year.
Reply:I would say cages are probs the cheapest way to support them,unless you can find sticks and tie them loosely to the sticks without breaking your plants.
Reply:Why do that? Girl, go ghetto, try using 2X2 boards the go up about 3-4 feet... space them out about 2-3ft. using nails, before you place them into the ground, nails some thin nails into them(using the thick or big ones can cause the board to weaken thus you would have a falling tomoatoe plant). Nails- should be going up and down and have about 7 inches in space. Once all boards have nails in them try using regular wire, like for the weedeater, and well string it across and there you have it viola!
Reply:I can suggest a couple ideas I have used or using. First one is to find a building contractor that uses concrete ie. driveways or foundations. They use a heavy gauge wire for reinforcement and often times they will have an excess after a job and if they know you want it sometimes will give you a call to come get it when the job is complete.
This wire can be rolled into about a 2 1/2' dia cage and will literally last a lifetime.
Second method is while the plants are young plant in rows and at the ends of the rows drive two metal fence posts about 6" apart on both ends of the rows and using a twine make about 4 laps spaced about 1' apart around both ends which will hold the vines inside the twine.
This year I cut bamboo poles about 6' long and drove them in the ground and I am using pipe cleaners to tie the plants to the bamboo.
Reply:any kind of cage structure! u'll pay later with hard work in the garden if u don't cage em now! trust me.... i spent all last year messing with stakes and this and that... when i should've gone with cages in the first place.... fork over the money now....once... and u got em for a lifetime!
Reply:A few fence posts and some heavy wire, as long as you want to keep your garden in the same place year after year. I'd place them 4'-6' apart and run 1-2 strands of wire in/on the fence, then tie them up with a nice biodegradable twine as needed.
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