Today a quick episode on a little tool comes from Johnny's selected seeds or at least that's where I've purchased them in the past. It's called a Tahook named after tomatoes and tomahawk so why would you

use something like this well it's a trellising method or better put it's a device

that helps a particular method of trellising either tomatoes or cucumbers, things

like that.

They are a heavy duty steel hook and they hang on a high wire so you need to have the

high wire for this to work you can use what's called the lower and lean

trellising method this is perfect for that.

And what they'll do is they flip over, they rotate,

and every time they do that, they release about seven inches of twine.

Each of them when you buy it, it's got about 50 feet worth of twine. Each of them when you buy it, it's got about 50 feet worth of twine.

And what you do then is, let's say you're growing cucumbers, right? You've planted a cucumber

seed in the ground. It starts to sprout. That sprout has that growing tip, that first main leader

vine, right? That starts to go up. You connect that vine to the hook. Not sorry, not

the hook. You connect it to the twine.

At the bottom, it starts to grow up the twine.

Eventually it gets to the top of your trellising system.

So what do you do?

You just give up?

No. That's when the tomah hook comes into play. You unravel it one or two turns, seven or

14 inches or so, and it pushes the growth back down that exact amount. And so you can keep letting it grow up, up, up, and you bring it down, up, down.

The growth at the bottom, the vine at the bottom, the oldest stuff, starts to pile and

swirl. You can organize it however you choose, but at that point

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