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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

3 Tomato Trellis Methods Tested

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There is perhaps no more hotly contested debate than how to trellis your tomatoes. To discover which worked best for her, Jill McSheehy tested 3 of the most popular methods...find out which she liked the most!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up everyone?

0:04.0

What is up everyone?

0:14.0

Welcome back.

0:16.0

It's Kevin here from Epic Gardening and Jill McShei is back to drop some knowledge

0:20.5

for us about tomato trellising. This is, I wouldn't even say hotly

0:26.1

debated Jill, but there's just certainly so many different methods, right? I know that we talked

0:30.9

about Joe Lampl yesterday with his perfect soil mix.

0:34.4

He's on a campaign to get rid of those conical tomato cages, right?

0:39.6

So everyone has their pet method for what they like to do. One of my friends Kyle, his

0:44.0

Instagram is Urban Farmstead, he likes to use these hogwire trellises that he

0:49.6

ties his tomatoes up on like a twine. I forgot what it's called. I know my other friend

0:54.3

Stephen Cornette uses a lower and lean style trellising method on his urban farm so

0:58.6

needless to say there's a million in one different ways but you've profiled three

1:02.4

and you've tested them and so

1:04.2

lay it out for me I'd love to hear this. Yeah and the fact that this is such a

1:09.1

highly debated topic was exactly why I tested it not necessarily because my test would be the be all

1:14.8

and all but because I wanted to know what would work best in my garden and that's why I

1:19.0

want to make sure that people understand is that my tests aren't necessarily just to answer a

1:25.8

question but it's to test it in my garden and you can do the same thing in yours

1:29.2

so my test may yield different than your test might in something like this.

1:33.8

So I use the Florida weave for my robot tomatoes and that is not really what I was testing

1:39.2

because I'm pretty set on using that but I wanted to test tomato staking methods for indeterminate tomatoes.

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