76- Tomato Cages vs. Stakes
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
My journey to the ideal tomato trellis system has not been an easy one. It started with using a flimsy round "tomato cage," which couldn't bear the weight of my vining tomato plant loaded with fruit.
Then, I turned to the Florida Weave method. This worked beautifully for my Roma tomatoes but not the vining, indeterminate varieties.
Finally, I decided to try two other popular methods -- tomato staking and a heavy duty professional tomato cage. Then I tested each method and took detailed notes on the yields of each.
In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast and in the article below, I share the results of my testing. You'll learn the benefits and drawbacks of both the single-stem tomato staking method and the heavy duty tomato cage. By the end, you'll see which one I settled on and why.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, |
| 0:06.1 | and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hey guys. Before we get started with today's subject talking all about tomato cages and tomato staking, I just wanted to let you know if you're listening to this in real |
| 0:38.1 | time on March the 19th, today is the very last day that you can enroll in my online course, |
| 0:44.5 | The Beginners Garden Shortcut. I'm going to be closing the doors until next season, and I hope |
| 0:50.3 | that you take the opportunity to get in on me helping you plan and plant your garden this |
| 0:55.5 | year. In the course, you'll get access to 20 plus training videos plus another 15 how-to videos, |
| 1:03.4 | like how to steak your tomatoes like we're going to be talking about today, and so much more, |
| 1:08.3 | including some printable bonus material and my very favorite bonus, a live |
| 1:13.8 | online coaching call via Skype or phone call, the phone call if you live in the U.S., where I can help |
| 1:21.6 | you plan and plant your garden and kind of meet you where you are and give you some personalized |
| 1:27.2 | recommendations. So I'm really excited about that bonus. you where you are and give you some personalized recommendations. |
| 1:28.0 | So I'm really excited about that bonus. So if you are listening to this today on March the 19th, |
| 1:33.7 | go to Journey withjil.net slash garden shortcut for more information. |
| 1:40.0 | Today on the podcast, I'm going to be talking to you about a subject that I have been really |
| 1:45.0 | excited about talking with you about for a long time, actually since I decided to test a couple |
| 1:51.0 | of different methods of staking my tomatoes last year. Last year was the first time I actually |
| 1:56.3 | put pen to paper and I was deciding which one of these worked out best for me. So today we're |
| 2:02.8 | going to talk about my experiences last year. If you're a regular listener, then you've heard me |
| 2:08.8 | talk about how I grow a lot of tomatoes, usually between 30 and 50 tomato plants each year. |
| 2:15.7 | But it didn't start out that way. It actually started out with one |
| 2:19.7 | single tomato plant. I remember my husband built a couple of raised beds our first year, which I really |
| 2:26.2 | don't count as my first year because I really wasn't into it then, but he wanted to grow vegetables. |
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