Do you tie/support your tomato clusters? - Page 2

beatpoet · July 12, 2012

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Originally Posted by FILMNET

Velcro tape

I use that stuff as well. Love the fact that I can reuse it year to year and easy to adjust if things need moved around.

noinwi · July 12, 2012

I picked some macrame cord a few years ago at a thrift store. I would take it out to the plants and cut what I needed to tie stems, branches, trusses, etc to supports, usually stakes. At the end of the season I saved all the ties and washed them and bagged them up for future use. Here we have a lot of T-storms throughout the summer and it is also very windy. I'll tie up a heavy truss or branch that has been bent by heavy rain and wind. I also have a bag of those knit loops that are used for making pot holders. Those work pretty well too. I just cut them open. They are similar to using T-shirt strips.

July 12, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by FILMNET

Velcro tape

Good idea!

FILMNET · July 12, 2012

Staple gun for the wooden stick, you can tie up anything socks, plastic bags, nets for onions bought at stores. with a staple gun to the wood stick.

July 12, 2012	#17
noinwi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: PNW Posts: 486	I picked some macrame cord a few years ago at a thrift store. I would take it out to the plants and cut what I needed to tie stems, branches, trusses, etc to supports, usually stakes. At the end of the season I saved all the ties and washed them and bagged them up for future use. Here we have a lot of T-storms throughout the summer and it is also very windy. I'll tie up a heavy truss or branch that has been bent by heavy rain and wind. I also have a bag of those knit loops that are used for making pot holders. Those work pretty well too. I just cut them open. They are similar to using T-shirt strips.

July 12, 2012	#19
FILMNET Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Charleston,South Carolina, USA Posts: 1,803	Staple gun for the wooden stick, you can tie up anything socks, plastic bags, nets for onions bought at stores. with a staple gun to the wood stick.