Tomatoville® Gardening Forums


Notices

Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old December 30, 2016   #1
Starlight
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: AL
Posts: 1,993
Default Bagging Sleeves

While at the local hardware store this morning, I found the neatest mesh bag sleeves. They was only 1.49 each. Got me 15 to start with.

They like this

https://www.amazon.com/Trimaco-11313.../dp/B0038RRPI2

same company as what I got. They are a real fine mesh and about 22" across at the top of the sleeve and about 17" across the widest part of the sleeve.

They are a real fine mesh, don't even think a gnat can get through it. What is great about it is you always get those branches that harder than heck to try and cover, or the small bag you put on fall off.

With these you could do a basic slip stich or just gather and tie to the branch or use a wire or something. Fast and easy.

Just thought I would let folks know about them. Trying to get supplies all gathered now.
Starlight is offline   Reply With Quote
Old December 30, 2016   #2
ginger2778
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Starlight View Post
While at the local hardware store this morning, I found the neatest mesh bag sleeves. They was only 1.49 each. Got me 15 to start with.

They like this

https://www.amazon.com/Trimaco-11313.../dp/B0038RRPI2

same company as what I got. They are a real fine mesh and about 22" across at the top of the sleeve and about 17" across the widest part of the sleeve.

They are a real fine mesh, don't even think a gnat can get through it. What is great about it is you always get those branches that harder than heck to try and cover, or the small bag you put on fall off.

With these you could do a basic slip stich or just gather and tie to the branch or use a wire or something. Fast and easy.

Just thought I would let folks know about them. Trying to get supplies all gathered now.
At Amazon your link has them for a much better price, about 35% discount over what you paid and free shipping if you order enough things. Good stuff!
ginger2778 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old December 30, 2016   #3
Gardeneer
Tomatovillian™
 
Gardeneer's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,919
Default

I buy and use nylon tulle from fabric store. Cost couple of bucks per yard. I started using thos for flea beetles but have discovered many uses for them, rats, rabbits, squirrels, ..
__________________
Gardeneer

Happy Gardening !
Gardeneer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old December 30, 2016   #4
Rajun Gardener
Tomatovillian™
 
Rajun Gardener's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Tomato Cornhole
Posts: 2,550
Default

You can get them from your local Sherwinn Williams paint store too, they have 5 gallon and 1 gallon size in stock.
Rajun Gardener is offline   Reply With Quote
Old December 30, 2016   #5
spacetogrow
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: MN zone 4
Posts: 359
Default

Has anyone tested a particular brand for longevity? I've been using the ones I get at my local builders' supply store to cover clumps of 4-5 bush bean plants, with the rim buried a little in the soil, but I'm lucky if I can get more than 1 season out of any of them before they're holey.
spacetogrow is offline   Reply With Quote
Old December 31, 2016   #6
Rajun Gardener
Tomatovillian™
 
Rajun Gardener's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Tomato Cornhole
Posts: 2,550
Default

I use the 5 gallon paint strainers from SW for dutch buckets and this is the 3rd season I'm using them.
Rajun Gardener is offline   Reply With Quote
Old January 4, 2017   #7
spacetogrow
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: MN zone 4
Posts: 359
Default

Thanks for the feedback.
spacetogrow is offline   Reply With Quote
Old January 10, 2017   #8
JLJ_
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 759
Default

Great tip!

I use white fairly fine tulle for bagging blossoms and for other things -- but ready to use bags at a reasonable price would be useful also.

I found it particularly interesting that paint strainer bags had been used successfully in the south as it's seemed that many times the difficulties people have had getting fruit to set inside the bags may have been due to heat -- especially with muslin bags. My tulle enclosed blossoms usually do set fruit -- I've thought probably due to a little better air circulation -- but perhaps the paint strainer bags also allow that -- and they're white.

Even with the tulle, some plants just don't seem to like to be bagged. Blackfoot, last summer, firmly declined to set fruit when blossoms were tulle-bagged -- so I cut off a large piece of tulle and wrapped an entire cage around the plant -- after which it consented to make fruit -- but it was so late in our short season that to get fairly mature fruit I ended up babying the plant during cold spells with multiple layers of protection -- big towels around the top, rug around the base, sheet and quilt over everything, all inside a plastic tent -- to keep it surviving until winter began in earnest here in November.

:::shaking head::: Sane people would never believe the things we sometimes do to look after our tomato children.
JLJ_ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old January 10, 2017   #9
HudsonValley
Tomatovillian™
 
HudsonValley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
Posts: 626
Default

I use sheer organza fabric wedding-favor bags with satin ribbon drawstrings, similar to these: https://www.uline.com/BL_5517/Organza-Bags
I buy them at a local party-supply store, in smaller quantities and in white/off-white. I think they cost about $.75-$1.00 each for the larger sizes. They're hand-washable, and they add a festive flair to my plants.
HudsonValley is offline   Reply With Quote
Old January 10, 2017   #10
Ricky Shaw
Tomatovillian™
 
Ricky Shaw's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Zone 6a Denver North Metro
Posts: 1,910
Default

The long and slender organza's 6½" x 15" better? Or the bigger square ones like 12"x14" or even 22½" x 25"?
Ricky Shaw is offline   Reply With Quote
Old January 10, 2017   #11
HudsonValley
Tomatovillian™
 
HudsonValley's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
Posts: 626
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricky Shaw View Post
The long and slender organza's 6½" x 15" better? Or the bigger square ones like 12"x14" or even 22½" x 25"?
I typically use 6 1/2 x 15 for indeterminates, and 5 x 7 for determinates, but you could use any size, I suppose. I guess it depends how long you plan to leave them on. I put the bags on when I first see buds forming. When I see blossoms, I tap/shake to pollinate. I remove the bags when I see fruit setting, and loosely tie a twister-tie (white, not green) around the stem of each individual fruit being saved for seed. Seems to have worked so far.
HudsonValley is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:37 PM.


★ Tomatoville® is a registered trademark of Commerce Holdings, LLC ★ All Content ©2022 Commerce Holdings, LLC ★