Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm so glad you're here today because in this episode

I'm going to talk with you about staking your tomatoes.

Now, you may wonder why I am chiming in on this subject when the internet, YouTube, and the podcast world is full of ideas of trellising tomatoes.

Well, the reason is because I want to speak to you, the beginning gardener, and boil

all this information down into something you can take and use in your garden this year. You see,

all that information was available for me when I was beginning in my garden too, and I still,

for whatever reason, didn't catch on to some of the most

basic principles when it came to staking tomatoes. But as I try to do on this podcast, I want to pass

on to you what I've learned, sometimes the hard way, so you can get a better start. Today I'm going to

talk about four different methods of staking

your tomatoes. There is no one-size-fits-all approach here, and the method you use will

largely depend on your goals, your resources, and the type of tomatoes you grow. I'm going

to talk to you about four methods the round tomato cage the Florida

weave the single stem method and the sturdy tomato cage and why you might want to

choose one over another in your garden or in particular tomato plantings because I

know I use different types depending on which planting I'm using.

Before we get into these four different types of tomato trellising methods, first we need to know what the difference is between

determinant and indeterminate tomatoes. I went into this in detail in episode eight how to grow a salsa garden for a different

reason, more having to do with timing of your planting and that kind of thing. But today,

knowing whether you're growing determinate or indeterminate really does make a difference in how

you steak. And I'm going to share with you a mistake, no pun intended, I made in just a bit.

But first, the two different types of tomatoes, determinate and indeterminate. Determinate tomatoes are

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