What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are talking

again about trellises and tomatoes, but specifically we're talking about how do you

actually train a tomato plant up a trellis and why would you do this? Well, honestly, why would you do this is kind of a solved question already.

If you're growing an indeterminate tomato variety, that is a binding plant that will grow anywhere from 10 to 12 feet. So if you don't train it, you're missing out on a lot of potential growth and potential tomato harvest.

Now, how do we actually train a tomato plant up a trellis that we've built?

Well, it's really not that hard. The only issue is that you have to start when you have a young tomato plant,

because if you try to train an existing or a growing adult plant up a

trellis well it's very hard to force it into a system it wasn't growing into in the

first place so you're gonna want to start with a young

small tomato plant and you want to tie the stems of your tomato plants to

whatever type of trellis you have every six or eight inches as they grow.

You want to be careful here.

The stems of tomatoes are very soft.

They're easy to damage.

Tie them loosely.

Don't get crazy about it. You can use plastic plant

tape which has a lot of surface area and is very flexible so you don't dig into the stem

itself instead of like let's say if you were doing it with

fishing wire that would be or fishing string that would be the probably the worst thing to tie

it with because it's very thin and very hard and it might sever the stem.

And so plant tape is probably a better idea

than even some twine, although twine will work just fine

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