Hello It was time to tie up the tomato plants and I always dread doing it!! This year a quick trip to Home Depot and bingo! Plant hold up clips! I never saw these before! What a pleasant surprise if they work! Took home a pack of 10 and the 100 feet of plant tie up with cutter! WOW easy peasy! I already bolted in pressure treated 2x4s and used a piece of electrical conduit as a tie bar so just wrap the wire around it and pull the plant up before I twist it tight! Then as the plant grows I can untwist the wire and or change the clip to readjust it!! We used approximately 2 clips per plant. Your results may vary. Plant tie up clips https://www.homedepot.com/p/Vigoro-Reinforced-Plant-Clips-10-Pack-5586/322277969 Plant tie up wire https://www.homedepot.com/p/Vigoro-...rden-Wire-With-Case-And-Cutter-5518/322301276
Probably a newer product to hit B&M stores and to be a Vigaoro product. I'm pretty sure I saw mine in a gardening catalog (maybe Vermont Seed?) and ordered them to hold up grape plant stems (which I had at my old house - so at least 15 years ago. I got a couple of packages of various sizes to clip stems directly to chain link fence. Illinois Industrial Tool made them back then (yes, I went and looked at the mesh bag they came in - because I save everything ), but doing a Google search, I don't see them available anymore. The same type that I have are available all over Amazon though
Why not just cage them while they're still small? Plus they can be reused year after year. That's all I've ever seen done to hold up tomatoe plants.
I use concrete reinforcement 'fence' and make cages from it. I also use T posts, putting a PVC T on top and running irrigation pipe thru the T.
A cage: I usually tie two of these as a pair to a pole so they don't blow over in the wind. I did not grow Celebrity tomatoes this year so I am using them other ways. A trellis: with a couple of the cages strapped to a pole behind it.
I found it really helpful to explore a variety of solutions for my garden setup, which I also combine with my indoor plants. Shopping for indoor plants brings the greenery I love inside, and it's super reliable. Plus, I've enjoyed exploring various plant-support systems, similar to what's being discussed here, making my gardening both inside and out a breeze.
For the win! The ones I have are a larger diameter and work great-year after year. Being larger, I have never been concerned about the winds. For whatever reason, this year I decided not to use them. What a regret! During the winter months, I'll double them up and use them to protect the young apple trees from deer browsing Never had that problem either but you know how that goes.
I several of those coated wire coils/cutter. I use them all over the yard in with various applications.
I’ve got some romex electrical wire scraps that I’ve found dumpster diving new home construction sites. It works as good for tomato’s as it does for tree sapling tie outs. And when you’re done with it you can turn it in for scrap. Not sure I’ll ever scrap it as it’s useful for many things.
