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🗓️ 21 May 2020
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The Florida Weave is a unique, low maintenance trellising option for tomatoes that I encountered last year on my vegetable tour up the coast of California. Here's how it works.
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0:00.0 | On a recent trip, |
0:04.0 | recent, |
0:05.0 | on a |
0:08.0 | on a recent trip, it's not so recent anymore, it was last August, and it was a hot August, |
0:18.8 | we were doing a trip up the coast with the National Garden Bureau. |
0:22.3 | I was fortunate enough to go on this, |
0:25.1 | and I visited a lot of different seed companies up the California coast. |
0:29.4 | All of these seed companies were doing what were called vegetable trials which was |
0:33.0 | showcasing and growing out all of their most promising new varieties that they had |
0:39.7 | bred for the year and so a lot of different large-scale buyers small scale |
0:44.8 | gardeners etc anyone could come through and take a look at all the different |
0:48.6 | varieties now what perked my eyes was a trellising method at scale. So this is something you can do if you're growing a lot of tomatoes. |
0:59.3 | Even honestly, even if you're growing maybe four to six feet of tomatoes in your garden, you can still do this, and it's a cool way to trellis tomatoes if you plant them in rows. |
1:11.0 | If you're planting them in a raised bed not in a row there are probably better solutions but if you are |
1:16.2 | planting in a row it's a really easy one to do and it's called the Florida weave. It sounds kind of funky, but it really is easy to do. |
1:27.3 | So let's just imagine that you have a 10-foot space. I know it's pretty large, |
1:31.9 | but a 10-foot space that're going to grow tomatoes in a straight line from one end to the other. |
1:37.0 | So a point A to point B. |
1:39.0 | What you'll do is you'll lay down some posts. |
1:43.0 | So you want some post driven into the ground |
1:46.0 | that can actually support all the plants. |
1:50.0 | What you'll do is you'll plant your tomatoes in between these two posts so maybe one every foot or a foot and a half or so and then you just let them grow now when they're about a foot or so tall, you have to start the weave. |
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