🍅 My UPDATED Tomato Trellis for 2023! #tomatotrellis #tomatotips #growingtomatoes #gardentrellis

[dakotamoon]

My grandfather had a massive garden and I remember one year he grew a tomato plant that was 18ft tall. That same plant produced multiple tomatoes that weighed anywhere from 3-5lbs a piece and and had 1 8lb tomato and a 10lb one. The man then turned them all into an excessive amount of sauce

[ivorykeys]

Yes those suckers will grow more tomatoes however if you prune all the suckers off, you will less but have BIGGER tomatoes. Hack I learned from a widow woman. 😊

[_mini]

I've been taking suckers off and planting em... gives a good fall crop. Had small ones till December

[Godisincontrol]

Such a Genius idea 🎉 Simple easy and clean 😁 Thanks for sharing 🙏

[gardeninginthedesert]

I'm a novice tomato grower, my biggest plant is nearly a foot tall. I was told to remove all the suckers which I've been doing as soon as their sneaky little heads pop through. Thanks for letting me know about this. 🍅🍅🍅

[cookingsherry]

Were they both the same type of tomato? Looks like the ones you pruned were bigger tomatoes, sort of like beefsteak, and the ones you didn't prune were cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes, even though they're indeterminate, should not be pruned. There is a big difference! Also, I would be interested in knowing the weight of the tomatoes harvested rather than the number because a 110 beefsteak tomatoes are going to weigh more than 330 cherry tomatoes.

[seriouslyreally]

😂 I got lazy( and busy) one year and didn't prune the suckers and had the Mother of all bumper crops of tomatoes. So I stopped creating myself extra work😂 and leave them alone. Texas Tomato Cage them and thin out foliage for good airflow. Done

[alexasphotosgeneral]

Absolutely appreciate your experiments! I’m an amateur garden, I question almost everything I do but I often look back at your videos to see I’m on the right track

[rUK-wlsg]

What a great and wonderful explanation and useful post thank you so much 🌷🌹🤲🏽

[TheKerribeland]

Yeeees! Thank you! I have 2 suckers I left, and now that they're almost my height, they need help! Super easy, and solves the problem I ran into, JUST IN TIME! THANKS!!! 🎉

[sarahdeason]

Love your experiments .. Your vidros are gold ❤

[benegutierrez]

cut a cattle panel to the size of the trellis and let the tomatoes grow up that you can use the string to tie vines that stick out and it fare less work then stringing the vine to individual strings and picking the suckers that grow besides the 4 strings

[AllThingsWoWarcraft]

that comment on suckers just blew my mind. im in the process of experimenting runnin 3 stems on most of mine this yr. i thought they would grow slow but they are 8 ft tall, some are as samll at 6 ft

[richlaue]

You can let the sucker get some leangth, place in water till roots grow, then cut and plant.
It is also possible to bury a section of the vine, then when roots grow, cut to make a new planet

[insidethegardenwall]

What I do is to simply plant my tomatoes in the sunny side of my elderberries. The elderberries provide the strong support and fruit on their own with no issues. The tomatoes happily obliged. Nothing to build. At the end of the season, I cut the elderberries all the way down to the soil level as I am supposed to and the next season, repeat all over again. These are American elderberries. European elderberries have a different pruning requirement.

[hannanrafique]

I planted cherry tomatoes and did exactly the same I plucked bottom suckers but left the top suckers. And let Me tell you I reviewed insane amount of fruits. Alhamdulilah.

[c.a.greene]

I used the back stairs of my house to train up my tomatoes.
They grew some 30 feet - from the first floor to the 3rd floor.
Although they didn't receive any direct sunlight I still had several dozen large juicy tomatoes.
The planter they grew in was also where my husband has been emptying my daily coffee grounds, egg shells, banana and fire place ashes....
I put the plants under the stairs and out of the sunlight because my family prefers green tomatoes over red ones, yet we still had plenty of red tomatoes thanks to the fireplace ashes...
( my sons love fried green tomatoes and green tomato chutney 😊

[TheAfricanOrchid]

I’m glad you did this experiment because I don’t prune (suckers) and my tomatoes do very well. People cutting everything end up with skeletons for tomato vines. I’m like who keeps this information going because it’s wrong. I get loads of fruit from a healthy plant

[patriciablue]

What do you secure the strings to at the base?

[MD-kiqw]

You should try Florida weaving them in between to help with support but if you don’t need it it’s all good. thank you for all the information!