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New Type Tomato Plant Support
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?HSTRY 23 October 2009 New Type Tomato Plant Support

This support at first look appears to be ideal for supporting tomato plants in the home garden. The ring is 9 inches in diameter and diameter is about 1/8 inch and is stiff and very strong.

One of the sides of the ring can be easily removed to facilitate circling an existing plant, particularly if a support is required lower than the those installed.

The plastic clamp is well made and of strong construction. I use rebar for support, but wooden stakes up to about two inches could be utilized.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?JMRZU Purchased here at $2.99 US.

Sorry Durgan, can't we be a bit more self-sufficient than that, a bit of scrap rebar is fine, together with a bit of string or if really necessary a hoop made of twisted willow pruning, but do we really need another steel/plastic 'product' to do this.

As my tomatoes don't grow straight and are not self supporting I have to tie them in to canes. If I used that product they would just fall in a heap on the ground! Plus I think they'd be rocked too much by wind. But if it works for you Durgan then that's great.

I find a stick, then string up the the roof of the gh the way to go. you can twist the vines around the string so it's hassle free.

the sticks come from the hedgerow.

Weather permitting, just wait until you see my 25 or so plants in 2010. Perfect tomatoes are my aim.

My Mum, bless her lc socks, bought me a new-fangled tomato support last year. It's very good at the job. It's three plastic legs arranged in a triangle with horizontal plastic support bars at about one foot intervals.

It looks amazingly like the triangular arrangement of canes I normally use, which I tie strings onto at about one foot intervals.

But who am I to stand in the way of progress?

Mike

My toms grow in buckets, with holes drilled through. A string from the bucket handle to the crop bars in my polytunnel & extra bits of string if needed do the trick for me. I keep the bits of string from year to year, or compost it when it gets really frayed. (It's the course, natural stuff.)

One look in the mirror & I know perfection isn't for me

MW